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

Feature Request
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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

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I have already submitted this request internally, and it will be added to the relevant product Backlog.

However, the scheduling, timeline, and priority of this feature will be planned by the Product Manager, so I cannot confirm the associated timetable for this function at this time. Thank you!

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Hello everyone,

I think I have the same problem. I created an Rsync job from my QNAP NAS to a Netgear NAS. However, the job fails to start because the Netgear NAS is in sleep mode and the QNAP NAS cannot send a Wake on LAN command. Previously, I had two Netgear NAS devices, and with them you could set a Wake on LAN command for each Rsync job with a scheduled task, for example, 1 minute before the actual backup. It would be great if this option were also available on the QNAP. I’ve attached a screenshot showing how this looks on Netgear.

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While I agree this could be built in, and that would be nice, you can setup a cron job to send a WOL packet on a schedule. In my case, I would do it 15 minutes in advance (not 1 minute - or ideally build into a script a wait for at least a ping reply) as it takes a minimum of 10m for my system to boot up and be available. :slight_smile:

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