titon Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Hey Guys, There is a wealth of knowledge in this forum, but I cannot seem to find an answer to my challenges. Here is what I am trying to do. I am brining up a second unraid box to serve as a backup device to my production unraid server. I have an rsync running to send Production Data to the backup server. I am trying to configure WOL to put my backup server to sleep to conserve power. The challenge I am having is putting the device to sleep from the command line. I have followed this guide, but it seems to be for an older version of Unraid 4: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Setup_Sleep_(S3)_and_Wake_on_Lan_(WOL) Just to cover what I have done. The BIOS is configured properly and the ethtool command to make sure Wake On is set to G. Here are the command I try to use to put my device to sleep: 1. echo 3 >/proc/acpi/sleep - From what I have gathered, this command works in Unraid 4, and no longer exists in Unraid 5. I did look and there is no Sleep in that ACPI folder 2. echo -n mem >/sys/power/state - That appears to be the new command for Unraid 5. I enter that command.. I hear the disk jiggle.. but it never goes to sleep. 3. "Sleep" button on SimpleMenu server web page - I hit this button.. and server doesnt go to sleep. In BIOS, I changed the Power button from turning the device off, to putting it to sleep. If I hit the power button, the device does go to sleep. I look at my kill-a-watt, and the power drops to like 2 watts and the NIC light is blinking. If I send a WOL magic packet, the device does wake up. So based on that, I have WOL configured properly, I just cant seem to put it to sleep from command line. Does anyone have any guidance or suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated. - Ton Quote Link to comment
titon Posted August 21, 2014 Author Share Posted August 21, 2014 Ok.. the s3 issue appears to be related to my motherboard (Zotac IONITX-A-U). I updated the bios and same problem. I took my unraid flash drive and plugged it into another board, and the command worked just fine. Since I did configure WOL already, I do not need s3 for my backup unraid box. I am just sending the HALT command after the drives has spun down. When I need to transfer data to this box, I just send the magic packet and wait for the server to fully boot. - Ton Quote Link to comment
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