VM shutdown instead of suspend

[dF2002]

Hi, is it possible to have a VM (Ubuntu 14) do a shutdown instead of suspend when I shutdown my NAS?

I generally shutdown my NAS nightly, and auto-reboot each day. However, the VM Ubuntu goes into suspend, and causes the time to be several hours off in the VM Ubuntu. This further creates problems with scheduled cron jobs. Or perhaps there is a way to shutdown the VM Ubuntu a few minutes before the scheduled shutdown of the NAS?

[pwilson]

Hi, is it possible to have a VM (Ubuntu 14) do a shutdown instead of suspend when I shutdown my NAS?

I generally shutdown my NAS nightly, and auto-reboot each day. However, the VM Ubuntu goes into suspend, and causes the time to be several hours off in the VM Ubuntu. This further creates problems with scheduled cron jobs. Or perhaps there is a way to shutdown the VM Ubuntu a few minutes before the scheduled shutdown of the NAS?

I can't imagine why anyone would ever shutdown a NAS, except to transport it elsewhere, but yes, of course this is possible. Simply schedule the shutdown to occur via the Crontab on the "Host OS":

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ssh root@192.168.1.103  /sbin/shutdown -h now

Assuming your VM lives at 192.168.1.103. Simply exchange the SSH Authorized keys between your Guest OS (Ubunutu), and the Host OS (QTS). Check out QNAPedia article: How To Set Up Authorized Keys. If you have the keys in place, you can execute commands on the GuestOS without providing any password information whatsoever when executing the command in question on your Ubuntu VM.

Simply setup this "cron event" to occur several minutes before you shutdown the NAS. If you shutdown your NAS at night, when do your scheduled Backups occur? My NAS runs 24/7/365 here, and my Backups occur "Daily".

[dF2002]

Hi, thanks.
Yes I suppose I could leave it on 24/7. It is almost exclusively a 4x6tb media box serving up Kodi, and only gets used in the evening, so sits 20 hours a day idle. I have been scheduling it to shutdown late at night, and back up after supper.
I have another qnap with 2x8tb planning to use for backups. I really should think about an automated backup schedule, and maybe use it for backing up my Win10 system.

[pwilson]

Hi, thanks.
Yes I suppose I could leave it on 24/7. It is almost exclusively a 4x6tb media box serving up Kodi, and only gets used in the evening, so sits 20 hours a day idle. I have been scheduling it to shutdown late at night, and back up after supper.
I have another qnap with 2x8tb planning to use for backups. I really should think about an automated backup schedule, and maybe use it for backing up my Win10 system.

I do my Backups in the middle of the night here. In fact my poor NAS works harder when I'm sleeping than it does when I'm awake. Use that "other" QNAP to backup all your machines, including "this" NAS. RTRR can be used to Backup between NAS devices. I have no idea what the best method of Backing up Windows goes. I used to use Norton Ghost to my NAS under Windows 7. (I no longer run Windows at all).

[vikino]

hi all,
is there any chance to change this? For ex.when updating QTS then it would be nice if my windows servers shut down too,instead od hibernating them...