PVE start and shutdown PBS

[evangelle]

Hi.
I was thinking about installing a PBS on a dell server link with my PVE.
The dell server has an IDRAC.

I was wondering if it's possible in any way to make the PVE starting up the PBS for the backup and shutting down the PBS ?

thanks for any info on it

 

[tcabernoch]

I don't think there's a way to do it with GUI supported tools.

You could build a cron and script a racadm statement.

ssh root@10.0.0.99 -m C:\putty\PowerOn.sh
racadm serveraction powerup

or IPMI.

ipmipower --on -h hostname/oripaddressofidrac -u root -p password



This doesn't sound like a great idea. Yes, you could do it, but you would do it with pieces that don't fit together well.
I got some of that from personal knowledge, and the rest of it here:
https://serverfault.com/questions/476471/can-i-schedule-machine-boot-via-dell-idrac

 

[Dunuin]

Some people here do that by using VZdump hook scripts. That way PVE will automatically run a script when a backup task starts and ends. You could then write your own script that will boot up the PBS server on demand via ipmitool and shut it down via PBS API once the backup job has finished. But keep in mind that you also need to regularily run maintainance tasks on the PBS like GC, prune and re-verify for which the PBS of cause needs to be running to do them. You should also add alot of checks to your script so PVE won't shutdown the PBS when backup/restore/upgrade/re-verify/GC/prune/scrub/resilver tasks are running.