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Pretty sure I've figured out the perfect low power backup solution for my parents house so everybody there can be backed up to my file server. My file server is an older system, Pentium Dual core, nothing special, and it supports WOL capability. The idea is this, to have the file server in suspend mode all of the time. At 5:55 PM every night, every system sends a WOL packet to kick it on.
(Reason all systems would send a WOL packet is in case other systems are offline... i.e. it makes no sense to have one specific computer handle the WOL packet because, what if it's powered off? Then it kills it for everyone else.)
Anyway, all systems send WOL packet, then at 6:00 PM they all sync data, and at 7:00 PM it goes back into suspend mode.
That way the server is suspended 23 hours a day and only online and using up normal-operation-power one hour a day. Great!
My family uses a mixture of Linux and Windows. I have the Linux side covered thanks to crontab and a simple wakeonlan command utility (wakeonlan 11:22:33:44:55:66, bingo bango done). But I need to find something similar for Windows.
Is there a wake on lan utility for Windows that has a scheduler so I can launch it at 5:55 PM like the above example? I did find this guy - WOL - Magic Packet Sender - Free Windows Software - but there's no scheduler. Can XP/7's task scheduler handle that void? Is there a command line utility available for XP/7 that may work?
Open to all options here... just need a utility for XP/7 that handles WOL and a way to utilize it at a specific time.
(Reason all systems would send a WOL packet is in case other systems are offline... i.e. it makes no sense to have one specific computer handle the WOL packet because, what if it's powered off? Then it kills it for everyone else.)
Anyway, all systems send WOL packet, then at 6:00 PM they all sync data, and at 7:00 PM it goes back into suspend mode.
That way the server is suspended 23 hours a day and only online and using up normal-operation-power one hour a day. Great!
My family uses a mixture of Linux and Windows. I have the Linux side covered thanks to crontab and a simple wakeonlan command utility (wakeonlan 11:22:33:44:55:66, bingo bango done). But I need to find something similar for Windows.
Is there a wake on lan utility for Windows that has a scheduler so I can launch it at 5:55 PM like the above example? I did find this guy - WOL - Magic Packet Sender - Free Windows Software - but there's no scheduler. Can XP/7's task scheduler handle that void? Is there a command line utility available for XP/7 that may work?
Open to all options here... just need a utility for XP/7 that handles WOL and a way to utilize it at a specific time.