Wake up server and take backup

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Hei Tom

I could need a video on how to start a server over IPMI and take backup of a other server and shut it down again. Periodic backup of TrueNAS Scale.

I running a TrueNAS Scale server on both supermicro servers with IPMI. Replication task is up and running.

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It sound like your goal would be to wake up the other server if it’s off and I think using Wake On Lan would be the easiest way.

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I know my TrueNAS box isn’t running all the time, so I use scripts to wake it and shut it down when complete. (I just run scrubs manually since it’s not running very often)

As mentioned I use Wake On Lan.

Here is an example from a Windows batch file, the WOL command, and the shutdown command from putty (the text file just contains the shutdown command, shutdown -h now):

"D:\Programs - Tools\WakeOnLan\WolCmd.exe" 011b19EA3454 192.168.80.111 255.255.255.0
start putty.exe -ssh root@192.168.60.101 -pw mypassword -m "C:\shutdown.txt"

From my Linux machines, I use a similar thing to wake it if necessary:

wakeonlan 01:1b:19:EA:34:54
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Okay, I used the Main server to wake up the backup server with “ipmitool -I lanplus -H (IP addresse) -U *** -P *** chassis power on” under a ‘Cron Job’.

But the shutdown code “chassis power off” just kills the server. What code shod I use for a normal shutdown of the server?

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You can use ssh from the main TrueNAS to shutdown the other one.

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I found that this code will shutdown the server the right way.

“ipmitool -I lanplus -H (IP addresse) -U *** -P *** chassis power soft”