On Friday, 4 April 2014 16:12:20 UTC+1, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote: … Parallels VMs are generally automatically excluded from Time Machine, or > you’d have to back up a 30GB file every hour even if a tiny part of it had > changed. VMWare Fusion allows the VM to be split across 2GB chunks, which > mitigates this somewhat … >
In the past I chose to store .vdi files (VirtualBox virtual disk images) in a sparse bundle disk image. This allowed Time Machine to back up only the bands, within the bundle, that changed. As part of that strategy it's important to have points in time when backups completed whilst the disk image was not attached. So that restoration from any such point would yield a .sparsebundle that is consistent. More recently I used ZFS (ZEVO), but that's a different topic … -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
