So I want to setup a remote backup location at my parents house although they are very mindful about there electricity usage and environmental impact (and so am I) so I don’t want to have to have a pc always on when it doesn’t need to be.

Is it possible to setup remote Wake-on-lan so I can schedule my homelab at my place to wake up the server at my parents house and start a backup like once a week, I want to do this in a secure fashion as well so ideally no port forwarding, I currently use cloudflare tunnels for my home network.

Are there any other options or do you have a similar setup at your place?

  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    Then VPN in, send a signal to the esp using one of various methods to tell it to send the packet.

    this sounds like it requires another computer already turned on

    • faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      Depends on your hardware. My routers can serve as a Wireguard serveur, so no need for a computer for that part

      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        the only router firmware I have seen be able to do that is openwrt, and maybe mikrotik’s. none of these are common though, but if you can do this then yes this is a pretty efficient solution