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Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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So I want to setup a remote backup location at my parents house although they are very mindful about there electricity usage and environmental impact (and so am I) so I don't want to have to have a pc always on when it doesn't need to be.

Is it possible to setup remote Wake-on-lan so I can schedule my homelab at my place to wake up the server at my parents house and start a backup like once a week, I want to do this in a secure fashion as well so ideally no port forwarding, I currently use cloudflare tunnels for my home network.

Are there any other options or do you have a similar setup at your place?

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[–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

you can configure bios for self power on at certain time and then turn the server off after finishing backup

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Second that. I don't have another node that I can use for WoL at my backup location so I opted for the node to turn on every morning, run the backup and turn off using cron at a given time. Works perfectly!

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