force os x serve to sleep

[stuartrozier]

Hello,

im wanting to use an external drive (connected to mac mini) as a source for TM backups across the network.
think I've come to the conclusion no amount of 'file sharing' settings can make this happen,
so setting the mac min up as a 'server' is the way forward.

but i still want the mac mini to sleep,

is their a way of having the server run, but only when needed, or accessed by an external comp on the network.

ie - can the mac mini be woken, external drive used to back up for tm, then fall back to sleep again ?

is seems its all the services on the 'server' that are preventing it from sleeping, can this be overridden ?

many thanks in advance
stuart

 

[Significant1]

Is that not what osx server can do:
https://www.apple.com/osx/server/features/#time-machine

Edit: Sorry, don't know why. But I read it like where going to setup windows as server

 

[Gav2k]

You just need to set wake on lan up correctly (also depends on the router)

 

[chrfr]

is seems its all the services on the 'server' that are preventing it from sleeping, can this be overridden ?

You're correct that the Server services prevent the computer from sleeping. Server just isn't designed to sleep, and I've never heard of an override.