Power-off scheduler

icy wrote:
The os4 power manager allows to program shutdown. This feature is missing in the Os6 manager that only allows power-up. Once powered-up a manual shutdown shoud be made.

I am not sure I completely understand the last sentence here.

I think there is a case for power-up by itself (turn on the NAS at 4:00 am, so the scheduled backup will run). It makes perfect sense for me to want the NAS turned on, whether it was turned off manually or on a programmed schedule (or by a loss of power). And programmed power-down by itself also makes sense.

This should work like similar programmed devices (for instance a programmed light switched). If I turn on the lights manually, the next programmed "off" still occurs. If I turn them off manually, the next programmed "on" does the same. There's also a "manual" button that allows me to disable/re-enable all programmed actions without deleting the schedule.

icy wrote:
The system should delay the shutdown if backup/reshape/tasks are running, but not when data are read/write from external connection.

I agree there ought to be an optional way to do this, but I don't think the system can accurately predict how long those ongoing tasks will take. Also, if there are several backup jobs scheduled, you want them all to complete - not just the ones that happen to be running when the shutdown time arrives.

Of course if there's a problem, the activities might never complete - and the admin should be alerted if that appears to be the case.

More explicit logging would be helpful. If I shut down the system during a backup (or a scrub) - programmed or not - there should be a log entry telling me that what was being aborted. On power up, the log should identify scheduled actions that were missed.