Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:51:13 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OS X Lion time machine => (afpd|iSCSI) => ZFS question Message-ID: <20110725185113.2C956B827@mail.bitblocks.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:15:06 EDT." <20110725181506.GC1339@in-addr.com> References: <20110721215617.7C7F0B827@mail.bitblocks.com> <20110725181506.GC1339@in-addr.com>
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On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:15:06 EDT Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 02:56:17PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: > > I am in no hurry to upgrade my MBP to OS X Lion but given Lion > > time machine and netatalk issues, I got wondering if iSCSI on > > FreeBSD is stable enough for time machine use. How much duct > > tape and baling wire are needed to make it work?! > > Just a word of caution - I read somewhere that using iSCSI for Time > Machine means that you cannot use TM during an OS reinstall to > restore your files from the Time Machine archive as iSCSI isn't > available at that point. It seems you have to use a locally > attached disk or AFP for the support to be there during > reinstall. Not sure if thats still the case in Lion or not, I > would tend to suspect they still don't consider iSCSI a top tier > transport. I read you can create a boot dvd from one of the files in the upgrade. I will play with iscsi and report anything significant. Thanks to everyone who responded.
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