On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:15:06 EDT Gary Palmer <gpal...@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. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
