Fusion 1.1 & Time Machine

On Mar 27, 2008, at 4:33 AM, Kim Cary wrote:

> FYI, beginning with version 1.1 Fusion excludes its VM images (your
> PC 'files') from Time Machine backups. That means, if you look for
> them after the 1.1 upgrade, they won't be there. It's in the release
> notes, but I discovered that AFTER wiping out my machine before
> sending it to Apple. I was able to restore the VM image from the
> pre-1.1 upgrade timeframe, so not all was lost.
>
> Just a heads up. VMWare should be excluding while its running and
> removing the exclusion when it quits, if they're going to do that at
> all.
>
> Workarounds including using a backup client within the windows O/S,
> but I guess most people won't want to do that.

I never depend on Time Machine for my only backup. I also do a full
backup to an external drive with SuperDuper and do an rsync backup of
my home folder every night to my TeraStation.

I've always manually excluded my Parallels & VMware images from my
time machine backups becuase they end up being backed up every time,
adding at least 2GB or more to each backup even when only one small
file changed in Windows.