On Tuesday 13 October 2009 09:43:43 Tino Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Tyler,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 08:28:04AM +0100, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> > That is a perfectly normal design for enterprise backup systems.  Bacula,
> > for instance, allows the execution of arbitrary commands before and after
> > backups run, so you can execute scripts to send wake-on-LAN and shutdown
> > commands.
> >
> > I don't think Backuppc has this provision, but it shouldn't be too hard
> > to add.
> 
> I suppose, you misunderstood Robert's question - he wants it the other
> way around - clients power up the BackupPC server.

Ah.  Yikes.  No.  Bad.

Some BIOSes have the ability to wake on a schedule.  If yours does, perhaps do 
it that way, then run shutdown.

Regards,
Tyler

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