SBS on HyperV

I am currently setting up a Hyper V enviroment to run our internal SBS server plus one or two other servers and to provide a platform for our disaster recovery offering. Basically we offer a 25 seat DR Centre with PC's, Telephone, Internet Access etc. The idea is to virtualise the customers server to our Hyper V enviroment in the event of their building burning down or any such catastrophe. 

Now the challenge is to restore the SBS backup onto the Hyper V. Hyper V at the moment does not support pass through USB so just plugging the drive into the Hyper V will not work. 

So first I plugged the USB drive into the host machine. On the host machine Disk Management I put the drive offline. The drive is then availible as a drive in the settings of the VM. First off I set it as a SCSI drive but when I ran a restore it did not pick up the drive. Then I changed the drive setting so IDE. Booted off the SBS server, said repair my computer and it picked up the backup drive and the restore began. It took about 8 hours to restore 100Gb but that is probably down to the speed of the disk system in you test setup.