NAS "sleep mode"?

[Samsonsuperco]

I built a NAS a while back, nothing special, specs in sig. Since I am the only one in my house that uses my NAS (everyone else isn't very tech savvy) I only need it on when I am using my computer. Is there a way for it to go to "sleep" when I shut down my PC? I want it to be completely off but start up again when I turn my main PC on. It's running FreeNAS if that helps.

[Nergale]

Well I have asked myself the same question a while back. In the end I made some kind of workaround, which might not be what you want but it is a start.

 

I made a cronjob that sends a "shutdown -p now" at 3 am on Fridays and Saturdays. The rest of the time it shuts off at midnight (I'm working full hours I almost never need to adjust that schedule. If I'd need to adjust it more often I'd simply write a bash script that rewrites the cronjob.

 

Now to start it again I'm using wake on lan, it's pretty easy to enable on FreeNAS. I'm using my mobile phone when I'm at home to start it and a raspberry Pi if I'm working and need access to some files. 

This works like a charm if you're interested.

http://www.jeremyblum.com/2013/07/14/rpi-wol-server/

 

Else if you really only need it when you start your PC then you can simply write a script that sends the wake on lan package to the MAC Adress of your NAS and let it start with your PC.The same thing can be done to shut it down again. Just write a shutdown script for your PC that also logs into your freenas via SSH and sends a shutdown there aswell.

[Nergale]

Version 9.10 needs a bit of a workaround, other than that it works.

 

1. ~# mount -w /
2. ~# nano -w /conf/base/etc/rc.shutdown
3. Comment out #/sbin/ifconfig -l | /usr/bin/xargs -n 1 -J % /sbin/ifconfig % down
4. ~# mount -r /

For me it wasn't necessary to "mount /" it's already mounted normally.

 

In addition to that activate "wake on lan" or "wake on pci/pcie" in the bios.