tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1401434775260820755.post5809501506886444504..comments2023-07-29T03:21:47.040-07:00Comments on Rorohiko: VMware Fusion and TimeMachineKris Coppietershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05696256406179939326noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1401434775260820755.post-24513394991874347772011-09-23T03:13:02.966-07:002011-09-23T03:13:02.966-07:00Thanks a lot ! I was wondering how to handle this ...Thanks a lot ! I was wondering how to handle this with time machine, then I was wondering if the split vm hd would do the trick and happily I found your page !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1401434775260820755.post-4426367376465157562011-08-17T02:10:48.465-07:002011-08-17T02:10:48.465-07:00I used this article, amongst some others to write ...I used this article, amongst some others to write an entry on my blog entitled <a href="http://www.respuestafacil.com/vmware-fusion-time-machine.html" rel="nofollow">VMware Fusion Backup Time Machine</a> . My latin readers will say thanks for sure!<br />samrespuestafacilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10652334228127811169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1401434775260820755.post-62139464565603859342010-07-11T18:09:49.136-07:002010-07-11T18:09:49.136-07:00I have no exclusions in Time Machine - i.e. my who...I have no exclusions in Time Machine - i.e. my whole machine is backed up - including my VMware virtual machines. Because of the snapshotting, the size of the modified files inside the virtual machine stays reasonable - the 'main' snapshot file remains unchanged and is not re-backed up.<br />No, I am not using AutoProtect - though you could; it would work (but probably you still need to occasionally 'merge' them back into the main 'base' snapshot - after which you get a one-time 'whopper' backup, and then the regular regime resumes).Kris Coppietershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05696256406179939326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1401434775260820755.post-81167966796304561862010-07-11T15:58:28.888-07:002010-07-11T15:58:28.888-07:00Kris, just to be clear: did you *remove* the Time ...Kris, just to be clear: did you *remove* the Time Machine exclusion for your Virtual Machines folder to make this setup work? (I assume it put the snapshot files in this folder, or inside the .vmwarevm bundle.)<br />And are you using the AutoProtect feature to make your snapshots, or manually?Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15101783276707464195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1401434775260820755.post-4452212394928041982009-12-25T11:43:55.031-08:002009-12-25T11:43:55.031-08:00Time Machine makes backups on a per-file basis.
...Time Machine makes backups on a per-file basis. <br /><br />Whether these files are together in a folder or not has no relevance.<br /><br />If a file has not been modified it is not backed up. Instead, Time Machine makes a special symbolic link to the unmodified file - so if a file has not been modified over the course of 10 Time Machine backups, you will see 10 copies of that file, but they'll all be symbolic links to a single, unmodified copy. <br /><br />The trick makes sure that the 'bulk' of the virtual machine is in a single, big, unmodified file, and all changes are channeled into a much smaller 'changes to the base' file.<br /><br />Hope that clarifies it for you...<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />KrisKris Coppietershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05696256406179939326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1401434775260820755.post-17804183267748009802009-12-25T11:26:38.632-08:002009-12-25T11:26:38.632-08:00Given that snapshots are stored in the same direct...Given that snapshots are stored in the same directory as the VM files, how does this solve the problem? <br /><br /> Seems like the VM files and the snaphsots need to live in different directories. AFAIK you cannot split them apart, in VMWare Fusion 3. <br /><br />Hopefully I am wrong about that...?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03971204328000052261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1401434775260820755.post-4386095131586270942009-07-17T22:53:58.651-07:002009-07-17T22:53:58.651-07:00Hi kR, thanks for your comment!
Yes, I am aware o...Hi kR, thanks for your comment!<br /><br />Yes, I am aware of that - I have tried that approach too, but for me it did not work. <br /><br />Any 'reasonable' kind of VMware session (i.e. where I did some real work - not just boot up followed by shut down) seemed to modify just about all of my 2GB segment files, so Time Machine again ended up copying the whole lot each time I used the virtual machine, independent of whether I kept it in a 60GB disk or 30 x 2GB slices.<br /><br />The 'snapshot' approach on the other hand works really well.Kris Coppietershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05696256406179939326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1401434775260820755.post-13261746083655075122009-07-17T21:36:06.892-07:002009-07-17T21:36:06.892-07:00You can also split the VM disk into 2GB files so o...You can also split the VM disk into 2GB files so only the changed chunks will be backed up instead of the entire disk each time.<br /><br />You can enable that by going into the VM's properties to Hard Disk and click the checkbox that says "Split into 2 GB files"Kennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16246844559251425950noreply@blogger.com