What E. T. said. If you have a VM that takes 30GB and in your VM Windows
Notepad you create a new document with a single letter in it, the entire
30GB file is now marked as being changed so TM will try to back it up
again. There is an option to have VMWare break up the virtual C drive
into chunks (usually about 4GB), but that still means anytime one thing
is touched in any of those chunks TM is going to back them up again.
With Windows constantly writing log files and such there is a good
chance you'll have many GB of data being backed up every time, greatly
reducing how far back in time your backups will go. As E. T. said, best
to exclude the VM folder from time machine and devise another method to
back that up.
CB
On 5/15/17 10:05 AM, E.T. wrote:
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.
From E.T.'s Keyboard. . .
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mysteries of the world, all the challenges to
our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off
and say God did it." --Carl Sagan
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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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