Hi,
Moved from VMware Fusion Technology Preview 2013 to VMware Fusion® (for Mac)
MarkDH123 wrote:
I have been having to exclude vm fusion from Mac Time Machine for years now, in order to prevent my memory from being devoured!
However, I read somewhere that this problem had been solved in VM Fusion 6.0 running Windows XP or later on Mavericks.
Is this true? Can Mac Time machine NOW be used to efficiently back up " *.vmwarevm " now?
I take that by "memory" you mean disk space.
But the answer is still the same, nothing has changed nor can it be changed as VMs simply are not TM compatible.
First of all your virtual disk files are huge files that are constantly being written to. If TM backs up while your VM is writing to disk, the result is that the backup you make has inconsistent data and data is likely to be corrupt.
Second if you did shut down your VM and then run TM, TM backup is still file based, so it will backup big new files each time and your TM disk will loose a lot of space.
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Wil