March 19, 20251 yr I have a backup Unraid server I've been manually turning on periodically when I want to run a manual "backup" by syncing my files over. This isn't really a true backup solution, so I'm working on reconfiguring my backup method to be a true versioned backup based on Duplicacy that can run on a schedule. My end goal is to have a scheduled script using the UserScripts plugin which will send a WOL packet to my backup Unraid server to wake it up, run a Duplicacy backup job, then SSH into the backup Unraid server and execute a shutdown once done. Right now I'm just working out the remote wake-up portion and need help sending a WOL packet to the other server from the main Unraid server's CLI. How can I do this? I have configured WOL on my backup server and verified it works by sending WOL packets from my Windows PC using simple WOL utility to test WOL is working on the backup Unraid server. I just can't figure out how I can do this from CLI on the main Unraid server so that I can then incorporate those commands into a User Script.
March 19, 20251 yr Author 2 hours ago, Michael_P said: etherwake is what you're looking for Hmm... not seeing any plugin by that name in the app store. Found another thread on it and it seems like it may be included as part of Unraid? If so, any syntax example on how to send a WOL packet from the Unraid CLI using it. I'm not finding any examples posted.
March 20, 20251 yr Community Expert 17 hours ago, poshmick907ak said: Hmm... not seeing any plugin by that name in the app store. Found another thread on it and it seems like it may be included as part of Unraid? If so, any syntax example on how to send a WOL packet from the Unraid CLI using it. I'm not finding any examples posted. From the command line: etherwake <mac address>
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