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