As above poster said, the laptop cannot be hibernating when you want to access it. Reason being is that the hard drive if turned off when in hibernation mode.
If the network card in the computer supports Wake On LAN, you can activate that option in the BIOS (and you might have to do it on the NIC as well) and then get a Magic Packet utility to run on the backup server shortly before the backup cycle begins. That should bring the computer out of hibernation to allow the backup. I believe that AMI still has the Magic Packet utility as a free download. I use that on my office LAN. My main machine starts from a BIOS timed start at 7:00 am and then sends magic packets to all of the other computers on the network to have the netowrk up and running when everyone gets in to work. That computer is left on when the office closes and it will again send magic packets to the computers around 8:00 pm to do backups and then all computers will shut down using a scheduled event until the next morning. The setup only runs on weekdays as that is the way the BIOS timed start is set.
The problem with wireless is that I don't know which, if any, wireless cards will support WOL.
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If the network card in the computer supports Wake On LAN, you can activate that option in the BIOS (and you might have to do it on the NIC as well) and then get a Magic Packet utility to run on the backup server shortly before the backup cycle begins. That should bring the computer out of hibernation to allow the backup. I believe that AMI still has the Magic Packet utility as a free download. I use that on my office LAN. My main machine starts from a BIOS timed start at 7:00 am and then sends magic packets to all of the other computers on the network to have the netowrk up and running when everyone gets in to work. That computer is left on when the office closes and it will again send magic packets to the computers around 8:00 pm to do backups and then all computers will shut down using a scheduled event until the next morning. The setup only runs on weekdays as that is the way the BIOS timed start is set.
The problem with wireless is that I don't know which, if any, wireless cards will support WOL.
Message Edited by schmieg on 12-28-2004 01:45 AM