As Mr. Simon Sea­grave has pointed out, there is a fix avail­able to enable OSX Lion Time Machine sup­port for Iomega IX2 and IX4 NAS stor­age devices.

I decided to take this a lit­tle step fur­ther, and try to upgrade my old (and dis­con­tin­ued) Iomega IX2-200 to the new IX2-200 Cloud Edi­tion firmware.

Ini­tially this was a big fail­ure, as I seem­ingly man­aged to brick my device. It was only respond­ing to pings (so the TCP/IP stack was loaded and work­ing), but I could not bring up the web based man­age­ment tool nor con­nect via tel­net or SSH.

Thank­fully Will van Antwer­pen had inves­ti­gated the firmware upgrade to cloud edi­tion a bit more than I had, and pointed me to the Gen­eral NAS-Central Forums where I found a link to a great HowTo explain­ing the entire process: Upgrad­ing Iomega ix2-200 to Cloud Edi­tion.

As that arti­cle also men­tions, I had to do the process twice to get it to kick in and un-brick my IX2-200 and get it run­ning with the new Cloud Edi­tion firmware.

After con­fig­ur­ing the IX2 with secu­rity and set­ting up Time Machine on the Mac­book Air, Time Machine seems to be run­ning with­out problems.

<MrBurns>Excellent</MrBurns>

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