FreeNAS 8 and Time Machine

I have just finished setting up the FreeNAS 8 on Hyper-V to backup my MAC using Time Machine.

Tricky bits settings up FreeNAS 8 on Hyper-V:

• Remove the default NIC when creating VM
• Add a new NIC, must be legacy NIC
• FreeNAS 8 does not recognize SCSI disks, only IDE
• After installed, change the IP to static
• do: ifconfig to find out the adapter name
• do: ifconfig down
• do: ifconfig up

Once the FreeNAS is up and running, go to its web console:

• Create a group called: backup-group
• Create a user called: backup-user, with primary group ID: backup-group, enter the password
• Go to Services, enable AFP
• Go to AFP Settings, make sure Local Access is ticked
• Go to Storage, and Create ZFS Data Set, called backup-apple
• Once it is created, edit its permissions, make sure owner-user is changed to backup-user and owner-group is changed to backup-group. Tick the option to have the Group the write access
• Go to Share, add Apple Share. Name it backup, path: /mnt/data/backup-apple. Make sure the Disk Discovery is ticked, Disk Discovery Mode is set to Time Machine. 

From my MAC, start Finder:

• Click Go, and select Connect to Server
• Enter Server Address: afp://freenas-ip
• It will ask you for the username: backup-user, password: password
• Start Console, type:defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
• Start Time Machine and Select Disk, select the backup

Thanks for reading :)