Time Machine will back up the VM but its not advisable. TM will see the VM folder as just a single folder, it will not look at any files within it. So what will happen is, every time TM runs, it creates another copy of the VM and pretty soon your backup drive is full of VM folders.

My strategy is to use TM and Carbon Copy Cloner. VM is excluded from TM. In CCC its set uo weekly to delete the older copy of VM and replace it with the current one.

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On 5/15/2017 12:02 AM, Ramy Moustafa wrote:
Hello all:

I have my mac mini here and my laptop, i did a time machine backup from my mac 
mini, can i do another time machine backup on the same External Hd but using my 
MacBook pro?
will they interfere or something?
of goers, i need each one settings different.
and the other question, will the VMware, will be included with it’s windows in 
the  time machine backup?
so, if something happens inside my windows, can i make time machine restore and 
it will tern back my vm ware with its settings?
Thanks in advance


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