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?! Thanks.
On Jul 21, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Bakul Shah wrote:> I am in no hurry to upgrade my MBP to OS X Lion but given Lion > time machine and netatalk issues,Which issues? (And did you file a bug report? :-)> 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?!There was a fine discussion about this here: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/ZFS-vs-OSX-Time-Machine-td4346562.html Regards, -- -Chuck
On 21/07/2011 23:56, Bakul Shah wrote:> 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?!iSCSI as in the target (server) function? net/istgt in ports seemed ok last time I tried it.
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:56:17 +0200, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> 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?!A friend of mine posted this on twitter this morning. http://www.alexanderwilde.com/2011/04/os-x-lion-connection-error-with-afp-and-workaround/ Apparently some hash algorithm or something like that is disabled in Lion, but not in a lot of NAS's. Ronald/
Stefan Bethke
2011-Jul-24 11:46 UTC
OS X Lion time machine => (afpd|iSCSI) => ZFS question
Am 21.07.2011 um 23:56 schrieb Bakul Shah:> 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?!After having had odd behavior from TM on a netatalk volume, I've switched over to istgt and the globalSAN iSCSI initiator, using a ZVOL. I found the istgt configuration non-obvious, but I also have little background in iSCSI. Took me about an hour to get it up and running without authentication; haven't bothered since trying to get authentication to work. Stefan -- Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Fon +49 151 14070811
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. Regards, Gary