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Title: WOL - Backup Machine
Post by: Smitro on November 27, 2007, 01:04:42 PM

Hi all,

I have this idea, my question is, can I pull it off.

I would like to backup my server to another computer. The problem is I need this other computer to be on when it's time for the backup to start.

What I'm wondering is if I can use WOL from the server to start the backup machine 10 mins before the backup should start. Shutting down isn't a problem, I can organize this on the backup machine.

Has anyone installed a WOL program on their SME server?

Title: Re: WOL - Backup Machine
Post by: thomasch on November 28, 2007, 03:27:31 AM

Quote from: Smitro on November 27, 2007, 01:04:42 PM

Hi all,

I have this idea, my question is, can I pull it off.

I would like to backup my server to another computer. The problem is I need this other computer to be on when it's time for the backup to start.

What I'm wondering is if I can use WOL from the server to start the backup machine 10 mins before the backup should start. Shutting down isn't a problem, I can organize this on the backup machine.

Has anyone installed a WOL program on their SME server?

Smitro,

I use wol command line tool to manually wake up a computer remotely.
download from here :

http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/wol/wol-0.7.1-2.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm (http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/wol/wol-0.7.1-2.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm)

install in with:

Quote

yum localinstall wol-0.7.1-2.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm

It's a command line tool and needs no config so don't worry about SME templating system.

Somebody maybe wants to incorporate it with backup contribs, I think it's not hard to implement.

thomas

Title: Re: WOL - Backup Machine
Post by: Smitro on November 28, 2007, 08:22:37 AM

Thanks! I'll give it a go.