Remote shutdown - special option

[Entropy90]

I want to be able to do the following:

At 2am:
1) Have the server turn itself on
2) Have the client turn itself on
3) Backup data from the client to server
4) Have both turn themselves off.

However, if the client is already on, I don't want it shut down after the
transfer (the client PC might have important, unsaved information open).

So is there a way to have the client shutdown after transfer if and only if
it was turned on, say, less than 10 minutes ago?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I want to be able to do the following:

At 2am:
1) Have the server turn itself on
2) Have the client turn itself on
3) Backup data from the client to server
4) Have both turn themselves off.

However, if the client is already on, I don't want it shut down
after the transfer (the client PC might have important, unsaved
information open).

So is there a way to have the client shutdown after transfer if and
only if it was turned on, say, less than 10 minutes ago?

The operating system will have *nothing* to do with turning a computer on.
After all - it's not loaded.

1 & 2 - hardware... Perhaps a scheduled power-on or "Wake-On" option...

3 & 4 - Scheduled task - set to run at startup. Some sort of script that
loops until it sees the server, starts the backup, waits until backup is
done, sends a shutdown to the 'server' and then, after that - shuts itself
down.

Now - your addendum - hmmm - something written into the script to check for
logged on user before shutting down the client but after shutting down the
server?