Wake Computer For Backup Well, this is still a problem. I don't use my desktop at home much - it dutifully goes to sleep after an hour of non-use. Thats fine.
But as others have stated, the scheduled 3am backup service job doesn't run (computer asleep) and only kicks off when I next power up the machine. This means there are 2 problems:
1) Nothing from my current days computer work will get backed up (as that the computer is asleep by 3am the next morning when its scheduled to run)
and
2) When I DO use the computer the next time, then backup is running and using the very limited upload bandwidth as well as disk/cpu activity, while I'm in need of the computer.
I've tried the approach found elsewhere on the internet to schedule a simple do-nothing task to wake up the computer - hoping that when that causes the machine to wake up the backup service will kick off - but so far unsuccessfully. Will have dig further into why that isn't succeeding.