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?

  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Sure, but you can’t access your home network anyway if your router is turned off…

    of course but most routers won’t do anything like this. and by router I mean the all in one devices people have, not enterprise gear.

    Asus routers, even my 15 year old tplink archer A7 could

    with factory firmware?

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      Yep, openvpn with factory firmware. It even had a (limited) choice DDNS services for self hosting, on a cheap consumer router. I could never figure out if NAT hairpinning worked though.

      Almost all routers have an “advanced” section where you get a lot if these nice options.

      I have only bought a ubiquiti device in the last few years though, so I guess it is possible that routers have been enshittified like a lot of tech products with features locked behind a paywall.