Got a question on how snapshots work. A snapshot through SmartGuard was just created and it looks like Parallels renamed the original files to a new name (new GUID) and then created new files with the original GUID name. Is this how it is supposed to work? I would have thought, to help with backups etc.., that instead the original name stays and just a new file with a new GUID is created then. That would ensure that if the original file had not changed it also would not be backed-up anymore (or synchronized). Whereas with the existing method the whole file is considered new (due to the rename) and it thus backed-up. Thoughts anyone?
Your virtual machine is a single .PVM file (folder). VM hard drice is .HDD file. Each snapshot is a new .HDS inside .HDD. Backups are already optimized for Time Machine, check out p.134 at http://download.parallels.com/desktop/v10/docs/en_US/Parallels Desktop User's Guide.pdf