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Time Machine back-up on WHS 2011 using iSCSI

josjev's avatarA member by the name of josjev at tonymacx86.com has written up how they got Time Machine backup working on WHS 2011 using iSCSI:

I am running WHS2011 as my home server and have been looking for a way to use it for Time Machine backups for my Mountain Lion Hack.

For a while i was achieving this through Freenas 8 running as a virtual machine on top of WHS2011, but transfer speeds never reached more than around 15 MB/s (WHS2011 is installed on a small HP Microserver with a relatively slow 1.3GHz dual core CPU.

After doing my homework on Google I have now a working iscsi connection reaching sustained transfer speeds up to and over 100MB/s!

To find out the steps josjev took, head on over to the following post: Working: Time Machine back-up on Windows Home Server 2011 using iSCSI

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  1. InteliSAN’s LDisk also gives you an iSCSI target for WHS or WSS-e:
    http://www.intelisan.com/ldisk.html

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