Yes I like this strategy. The only reason I don't employ it is that I find I'm a bit pushed for space on the Macbook Air, and the VM files can get pretty large. For those without that problem, it's a great idea. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org
> On 4/03/2015, at 9:00 pm, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com> wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
