Is it possible to do a WHS2011 restore from a local drive, say a 128GB USB3.0 USB thumb drive or even a SSD connected via eSATA or USB 3.0?
Wouldn't this be WAY faster than doing the traditional backup over ethernet? I believe my most recent restore took around 45 mins for a 120GB SSD - I don't think the drive was full.
Even though you would have to copy the backup to the thumb drive or external SSD I still think this would be faster.