Re: How to backup during standby, hibernation

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"Brian K" wrote:

On 8/7/2006 4:24 AM Guy wrote:
I just switched our home network from Win 2k Pro to Win xp Pro, and I am now running into a problem.
Every night, I make backups of the PCs on the network, but now with XP, it turns that as soon as the PCs go to standby of hibernation, I can not access them anymore. Is there a way to "wake these PCs up" when the time for backup has come?
Will a scheduled service get the desktop out of standby to run the backup?

When I let Outlook run overnight on my desktop, then I get error messages that it can not check the server for mail, so I assume that in Standby, also all hardware is being disabled. Is that correct?

By the way, I use Vice Versa as backup tool.
I'm on a stand alone. I can think of three options. Under Control Panel > Power Settings turn-off standby / hibernate. However that may not be practical. Another option in the BIOS of each machine, Wake On Lan, or maybe under BIOS Power Options - don't shutdown HDD or Ethernet Port during standby. I'd probably experiment with setting each machine's BIOS to Wake On Lan or Monitor Ethernet Port whichever is available.



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On 8/8/2006 1:52 AM Guy wrote:
Thank you Brian for your reply, but can you please be more specific. How and where do I set the "wake on Lan" option?
I can not imagine that I would be the first one with this issue. It is of course easier when everyone on the network only saves data at a centralized server, but that is not an option for me.

Thanks

Please don't top post.

The Wake On Lan setting is located in different menu locations on the BIOS on each machine in your network. One place it can be found is in the Power Options or Power Settings submenu in BIOS setup.

Since you are experimenting, you only need to change this setting to "True" or "On" on only a few machines. Since you are acting as network administrator I'll assume that you know how to access a machine's BIOS setup menu.

Here's a definition of WOL that may be helpful:

Definitions of *wake on lan* on the Web:

# (WOL) Wake On LAN provides the capability to remotely power on systems supporting Wake-On-LAN by simply sending a wake-up frame. To enable Wake-On-LAN function, your system requires Ethernet LAN adapter card that can activate Wake-On-LAN function, a client with Wake-On-LAN capability, and software such as LDCM Rev. 3.10 or up that can trigger wake-up frame.

We're way beyond windows basics here. You may want to ask your question on a web based newsgroup like Windows BBS http://www.windowsbbs.com Which has a forum called Networking.

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