On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:20:05AM +0100, James Elsey wrote:
Hi Chris,
You could always have a look at "Wake-on-LAN", if your garage PC is only used for backups you could leave it switched off and wake it up over LAN when you need to do a backup, either manually or via some scheduled scripts.
Yes, I am looking at that too, I'm just looking for the easiest approach (apart from the very easy approach of doing nothing and leaving it on all the time!).
Its worth a read if your bored! ;)
Thanks for the link, I'd been looking at the Ubuntu thread on it so this is another source of information.
There is then of course the question of whether turning the machine on and off two or three times a day will wear it out more quickly than leaving it permanently running.
J
-----Original Message----- From: main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Chris G Sent: 17 August 2009 11:10 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [ALUG] Suspend/hibernate on a desktop system, easy?, possible?
Is it possible to get a normal desktop system to suspend or hibernate when there is no activity? I'd like to get my garage backup system to use less power when it's not doing anything (which is most of the time).
If specific hardware is good/easy for doing this then I'm quite happy to build a new system as I'm thinking of creating a new system for test and upgrade purposes so I could use my exisiting garage system for that.
-- Chris Green
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