I have no permanently connected hard drives other than the SSD in my MBA. periodically I do a SuperDuper backup to an external drive. Am I correct in recalling that one can retrieve a file from a superDuper backup by opening the sparse bundle and simply navigating and copying the file? In that case, I could simply retrieve the VM from a SuperDuper clone, yes?
I have excluded the VM from time machine backup, thanks for the heads up. > On Mar 4, 2015, at 5:27 AM, Jonathan Mosen <jmo...@mosen.org> wrote: > > 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 <http://mosen.org/> >> On 4/03/2015, at 9:00 pm, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com >> <mailto: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 >> <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <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 > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <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.
