I use Time Machine to back up my virtual machines, but not from the active Virtual Machines folder, which I exclude in the preferences for speed. This is what VMWare recommends and it is a very good idea, because you don’t want Time Machine to back up a machine that is being used; you will end up with ruined backups, and waste a lot of disk space on your Time Capsule.
The idea is to have a separate folder which Time Machine does back up, which I will remember to copy my healthy virtual machines into, when they are in a known-good condition. In my experience, this actually works more reliably than snapshots. I have the active folder on my SSD, for speed, and the snapshots on my hard disk, which Time Machine will take a copy of. The drawback of this approach is that one is strongly incentivized to keep changes to a minimum, and thus VMs don’t grow organically, but are frustratingly lean and minimal. There’s a cost to everything. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
