Windows 10 also won't run scheduled backups if it's sleeping. RDP and Acronis work properly if the computer is not asleep. Wake on LAN is enabled.
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Click on (Start) or press 
key and type device manager and open the "Device Manager" window.
From here under "Network adapters" find the Ethernet Controller for which you would like to enable Wake-On-LAN (WOL). Right-Click on that Ethernet Controller in the "Device Manager" window, to open the context menu and select "Properties".
From the Properties window select the "Power Management" tab, and make sure to enable:
- Allow this device to wake the computer
- Only allow a magic packet to wake the computer
For some unknown reason, if both of these are not enabled then my machine would not wake.
Sooth
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The following guide from intel worked for me. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000027615/intel-nuc.html
- Enable the wake on magic packet
- Change power management to allow device to be woken up
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I had some issues with power management (display was not going to sleep) having everything configured correctly. I expect something like this may happen with WoL.
In my case executing power troubleshooter helped (while I returned back changes that it made).
Settings -> Update and Security -> Troubleshoot -> Additional troubleshooters -> Power.
I was using 'never sleep' option for PC and short sleep timeout for the display. Troubleshooter commented that sleep period for PC was too long, changed it to 1 hour, I returned to 'never' but display started to go to sleep correctly.
Hope this trick can help you with WoL but you also may find 'never sleep' approach useful. Modern hardware minimises power consumption to the minimum without OS even knowing it. Use simple wattmeter to check your case. For me WoL approach was just impossible - had no other stable device under my control within local network.
