auto-powerup,run backup,shutdown?

[Sarangan Thuraisingham]

This has to be supported by your BIOS. I have a Dell Inspiron laptop and 
in the BIOS settings there is an Auto Power On(I dont know if thats the 
correct name for it) mode. I used to use it as Alarm clock.

Or you could try an electronic timer switch of some kind.

Or what about, not really shutting down the computer, but standby/Sleep 
in RAM....

Hope that was helpful.
   - Saru

'Forum Post wrote:
> I recommend a package called Dirvish (it's in apt, or
> http://www.dirvish.org) to handle your backups.  I use it daily to back
> up 2 remote web servers and four local workstations.  Now for the
> powering on...how the heck would you do that?
> 
>