HBS - Add Features: Send WOL & Shutdown-On-Completion

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Hi,

Every month I use HBS3 to backup between two QNAP NAS.

Other than during the backup jobs, the backup NAS is powered off (to save wear/tear and power bills) and wired to the LAN.

I’d like HBS to do the following:

  1. Send Wake-on-LAN (WOL) ping to the backup NAS as part of the period backup/sync job profile. It should wait a configurable time (with timeouts and # of retries) before attempting to start the job.
  2. OPTION A - In HBS on the Backup NAS, set itself to shutdown after a particular job is complete.
  3. OPTION B - In HBS on Main NAS, set it to send a Shutdown/Sleep/Other command to the backup NAS on job completion.

Thanks.

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This would be a good option in my environment too.

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Sounds like the idea how the AirGap+ works but you directly controls the power of NAS instead.

But actually you can done similar without using WOL for now.

Assume your main NAS is A and backup is B. What’s in my mind will be:

  1. Setup a schedule power on on B.
  2. HBS on B performs “Active Sync“ and collect data from A. Data is copied from A to the B and the action is performed by B.
  3. Setup schedule power off.
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Thanks for the suggestion. You are right.

I’ve actually tried this method but it was quite clunky.

You can only set a small number of scheduled power on/off - not even once a month for 1 year - and it often failed to execute as configured.

Currently, I (manually) trigger the Backup NAS WOL using my firewall’s crontab. It works, but isn’t a good longterm solution.

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Thanks for the suggestion!

I will submit this request to our internal team for evaluation. Much appreciated!

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Thanks Steve.

Happy to test this out when available.

Also, as this request was submitted over 2 weeks ago, could you please provide an update on its status (accepted, rejected, in progress, etc.).

Thanks