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I have a very similar setup: an old PC with lots of big disk drives at my mom's house.
However, instead of leaving it powered on 24/7, I have it configured it to power itself on at a particular day and time every week. My backup script connects to it, mounts the disks, copies the data, and then send a shutdown command.
This way, the computer isn't running 24/7 (leaving it open to hacking attempts) , and the disks are only spinning when they're in use. It also saves my mom some money on her power bill :)
Just to be safe, I still have the PC plugged into a UPS.
Really interested in hearing how you would go about pulling this off. It sounds exactly like what I would want to do with certain shares on my Unraid server. Is it literally a script describing what folders to download through wireguard/tailscale/etc at a given moment? Or do you use something like syncthing, with the added instructions to shut the pc down when done?
More like the latter, except I use rsync (running over SSH) so as to minimize the amount of traffic. I understand syncthing works in a similar manner, but I haven't tried it out (I've heard good things about it though).