Thanks for the feedback thus far, guys. Maybe some background will
clarify my motivations. I intend to use BackupPC as a medium-duty
backup service for an entertainment media collection: a relatively
small number of infrequently modified large files contained on a small
number of clients. Though I specified "daily", even that might be
overreaching as this sort of data can be backed up weekly with few
repercussions. Thus, the server doesn't need to be on very often.

I hadn't considered the nightly jobs when proposing this scenario.

Nice link to the server messages. This will indeed help.

Wake-by-BIOS is interesting. Nice tip. I forgot the functionality even
existed. This makes the setup simpler. So what about:

1. BIOS wakes up machine.

2. Wake machine around midnight so BackupPC_nightly can do its thing
or just trigger manually upon bootup.

3. Now we'll reverse the direction: BackupPC wakes the clients.

4. BackupPC shuts itself down after jobs are complete OR after some
time interval (I don't want it to wait forever if a laptop is out for
the night, for example). Looks like BackupPC_serverMesg status hosts
can help here.

5. We wait for #1.

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