Who to operate low-energy backup-NAS?

Whitesnake

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I want to backup my main NAS-system (TrueNAS Core) to a backup-system. The goal is to use nearly no energy, so in the perfect world the backup-system is in standby-mode and the main NAS-system wakes the backup-system, does a rsync and the backup-system falls asleep again.

My problem: at the moment I use as a backup a Raspberry 4 with USB-attached SSDs. It's okay, but I like TrueNAS more and will swap the Raspberry for a Lenovo M720q. I would like to install TrueNAS Scale on my backup-system (I like the debian approach of TrueNAS Scale)

What is the best way to approach my goal? Should I send a WOL-signal from the main NAS-system and start a push rsync, of should I handle the energy situation within the backup-system only (set a wakeup time, pull rsync)?
 
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