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Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN.

Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN. - Lemmy

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?

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cmnybo Dec 4

You could use a very low power computer that’s always on like a Raspberry PI Zero W to send the WoL packet to the backup computer. It only uses about 1 watt. Some routers have the ability to send a WoL packet as well.

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pineapple

thats a good idea, although wifi is not reliable enough for me. Although I found this guide which shows how to add an ethernet port to a PI zero w so hopefully I can use that. Or maybe I should just use a ESP32.

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