Re: [CentOS] Being Green, Time to make the servers sleep!

2009-03-21 Thread Noob Centos Admin
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:13 PM, James Bensley wrote: > Shadies and Mentlemen; > > I am trying to be green and put our backup servers to sleep during the > day and have them wake on LAN and fire back up at night for our > nightly backups as "sleep" is a sort of low power usage mode. Make sure you

Re: [CentOS] Being Green, Time to make the servers sleep!

2009-03-21 Thread Noob Centos Admin
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:22 PM, John Hinton wrote: > ATX, just > powers down the computer, leaving the PS in a lowered power state, but > apparently this can draw up to 60% of the working power needed. 60% would be a gross exaggeration, off the top of my head, an "OFF" ATX PSU draws less than 1

Re: [CentOS] Being Green, Time to make the servers sleep!

2009-03-19 Thread John Hinton
Theo Band wrote: > Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > >> From: James Bensley Sent: March 19, 2009 04:13 >> >> >>> I am trying to be green and put our backup servers to sleep during the >>> day and have them wake on LAN and fire back up at night for our >>> nightly backups as "sleep" is a sort o

Re: [CentOS] Being Green, Time to make the servers sleep!

2009-03-19 Thread Theo Band
Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > From: James Bensley Sent: March 19, 2009 04:13 > >> I am trying to be green and put our backup servers to sleep during the >> day and have them wake on LAN and fire back up at night for our >> nightly backups as "sleep" is a sort of low power usage mode. >> > > I

Re: [CentOS] Being Green, Time to make the servers sleep!

2009-03-19 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:07:33 +0100 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Robert Heller wrote: > > At Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:54:41 +0100 CentOS mailing list > > wrote: > > > > > >> James Bensley wrote: > >> > >>> Shadies and Mentlemen; > >>> > >>> I am trying to be green and put our backup serve

Re: [CentOS] Being Green, Time to make the servers sleep!

2009-03-19 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: James Bensley Sent: March 19, 2009 04:13 > > I am trying to be green and put our backup servers to sleep during the > day and have them wake on LAN and fire back up at night for our > nightly backups as "sleep" is a sort of low power usage mode. I can not comment on how to do what your aski

Re: [CentOS] Being Green, Time to make the servers sleep!

2009-03-19 Thread Theo Band
Robert Heller wrote: > At Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:54:41 +0100 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > > >> James Bensley wrote: >> >>> Shadies and Mentlemen; >>> >>> I am trying to be green and put our backup servers to sleep during the >>> day and have them wake on LAN and fire back up at night for o

Re: [CentOS] Being Green, Time to make the servers sleep!

2009-03-19 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:54:41 +0100 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > James Bensley wrote: > > Shadies and Mentlemen; > > > > I am trying to be green and put our backup servers to sleep during the > > day and have them wake on LAN and fire back up at night for our > > nightly backups as "sleep" is

Re: [CentOS] Being Green, Time to make the servers sleep!

2009-03-19 Thread Theo Band
James Bensley wrote: > Shadies and Mentlemen; > > I am trying to be green and put our backup servers to sleep during the > day and have them wake on LAN and fire back up at night for our > nightly backups as "sleep" is a sort of low power usage mode. > > (At this point I would be curious to know th

Re: [CentOS] Being Green, Time to make the servers sleep!

2009-03-19 Thread Steve Huff
On Mar 19, 2009, at 7:13 AM, James Bensley wrote: I would assume it would be possible but I don't know how, does anyone have any idea? http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/ -steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth

[CentOS] Being Green, Time to make the servers sleep!

2009-03-19 Thread James Bensley
Shadies and Mentlemen; I am trying to be green and put our backup servers to sleep during the day and have them wake on LAN and fire back up at night for our nightly backups as "sleep" is a sort of low power usage mode. (At this point I would be curious to know the different levels of sleep, what