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Tutor

Sep 06, 2016

automatically boot and shutdown for backup

Hallo, i have a ReadyNAS 516 with my data and a old ReadyNAS314 which i want to use for backup. I got it running and backing up fine. But i cant find a option to shutdown RN314 after backup is fini...

Luminary

Sep 07, 2016

What about if you have two jobs (job1 schedule is 00:05-02:05, job2 is 01:05 to 03:05). Power schedule is 00:00-02:00.
If job1 is not finished at 02:00, the NAS won't shutdown, fine. But would job2 start before shutdown? Or would the NAS shutdown straight after job1 completes?
Without power schedule, job2 would only start from 01:05 after job1 is complete or forced start at 03:05 regardless of job1 status.

Lennardo
Tutor
Sep 07, 2016
I got a log entry 'scheduled power-off was delayed'. So it seems the backupjob has priority above power-off. I am test now some sitruation and will give feedback in a few days.

Lennardo
- cathcam
  Guide
  Sep 07, 2016
  "I got a log entry 'scheduled power-off was delayed'. So it seems the backupjob has priority above power-off."
  
  That matches my experiment last night. I set the NVX NAS to wakeup at 23:45, and power off at 00:30. I then created a backup job that ran on that NVX, and using RYSNC copied/pulled the data from my primary NVX, starting at 00:05
  
  The backup NVX powered on at 23:45, the backup job took 54-minutes to complete and the backup NVX powered off afterwards.
- cathcam
  Guide
  Sep 07, 2016
  Also, since my backup NAS is in the basement, I enabled Wake on Lan and can use a number of programs on my laptop or even my phone when connected to wifi to wakeup and Power-on the NAS. This allows me to run adhoc backups/restores without trecking down to the basement to switch the NVX NAS on.