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 that seems the sensible way to go, assuming it is just a backup file server then a cold boot should happen in seconds, so a backup script running from the client end that wakes the box up, runs the backups and then shuts it down would seem ideal. You don't need to retain machine state between power cycles so why bother with suspend/resume at all ?
If you want to run everything from the backup server itself then some BIOS's support scheduled wakeups although good luck finding anything with specific mention of it when choosing a machine.