Hello everyone, long time reader but I think this may be my first post. Apologies if its in the wrong section, but it seemed to fit in maybe a few different placed.
I'm basically looking to build a backup server/NAS. However if possible I would like to automate powering the system on/off to save on power and it wouldn't be in use 95% of the time. So power the system on sometime Friday night for example, do my backups and then power the system back down once complete. This would be used to compliment my cloud backups, so it would only be used for a few hours a week.
I'm assuming this may be an option via iDRAC, iLO or IPMI but its not something I have ever played with. Does anyone have any experience with something like this? I have some spare parts, so I was leaning towards building a server but I'm not opposed to doing a NAS appliance either if that fits my plans better.
Easy answer is me doing some of this manually, but I fear if I don't automate it I would get complacent...
I'm basically looking to build a backup server/NAS. However if possible I would like to automate powering the system on/off to save on power and it wouldn't be in use 95% of the time. So power the system on sometime Friday night for example, do my backups and then power the system back down once complete. This would be used to compliment my cloud backups, so it would only be used for a few hours a week.
I'm assuming this may be an option via iDRAC, iLO or IPMI but its not something I have ever played with. Does anyone have any experience with something like this? I have some spare parts, so I was leaning towards building a server but I'm not opposed to doing a NAS appliance either if that fits my plans better.
Easy answer is me doing some of this manually, but I fear if I don't automate it I would get complacent...