smartguard

Feature Request: Pause SmartGuard 1. The general need for pausing SmartGuard When I run long, unattended operations inside a VM (such as cumulative Windows updates), I want a way to temporarily pause SmartGuard snapshot creation for the current VM, so that Parallels does not initiate a...

Currently Smartguard Snapshots appear to just randomly decide they are going to trigger. There are many examples why this is poor behavior as it cannot be controlled. In the middle of an critical teams meeting you could miss vital information, be cut off, or distracted. Interruption of work...

I have enabled SmartGuard on all my VMs, because I back them up using TimeMachine. However, SmartGuard usually waits for me to turn on the VM, and once it's up and running, prompts me to create a snapshot. Of course I can disable the prompts, but then it just takes the snapshot right away...

I like the daily, weekly, and monthly snapshots created with SmartGuard. What I don't like is the apparent randomness of when it happens such as if I have not started that VM in some time. I don't want to skip it and yet I also don't have an option to delay it for a little while. So, I feel...

Hello, I'm concerned that an automatic SmartGuard snapshot that takes place during Windows Update installation / Windows Update reboot / any reboot might cause curruption of the Snapshot chain or other forms of issues. Is this 100% safe? Would it not be better if SmartGuard were able to detect...

For some users, running SmartGuard snapshots in the middle of a session can be disruptive. It would be great if there were an option to "Delay if VM is running" which ensures that SmartGuard snapshots are only taken while the guest is hibernated, suspended, or stopped. If this results in a...

I share my desktop and documents between Mac Big Sur and Win 10 Pro. I want to store my Quicken Win data file in a non-synced folder. Not particular if it is on the Mac or Win side. I will generate backups in Quicken to a Folder in docs that will be synced and thus backed up in iCloud. I...

I posted this as a bug/feature suggestion, but I realize I might be missing something: https://forum.parallels.com/threads/bug-parallels-smartguard-snapshots-should-process-one-at-a-time.353211/ Am I missing a setting or trick to prevent SmartGuard from kicking off a large number of snapshots...

When Parallels kicks off a round of SmartGuard snapshots, it does not prevent a large number of snapshots from firing concurrently. Parallels should add snapshot tasks to a queue and only process ONE snapshot at a time for any given storage device. This will reduce the total time needed to...

I would like the ability to set weekly or monthly backups. The only backup duration is in hours... Backing up everyday is too often for me. Thats just gonna wear out my SSD. I don't even open my VM everyday.

I know that there are tons of already posted question out there about SmartGuard and TimeMachine backups, but I have never found a question and more importantly an answer to my question. So, here we go: If you have no snapshots and SmartGuard is not enabled, when TimeMachine creates a backup...

Software: Parallels 15 Home Edition and the latest MacOS (10.15.3) I have SmartGuard enabled and Optimize for Time Machine checked on a Windows 10 VM. Every change to the system, even simply booting then immediately shutting down, results in a large backup (10-12GB) Am I doing something wrong...

When the smartguard snapshot dialog pops up it would be useful to have a button to delay it for 15 minutes (or a specified amount of time) to allow the current task to be completed before the snapshot happens. Example: Delay snapshot whilst OS updates are in progress.

Yesterday Time Machine saved my life once again even though i strongly suspect it also was the culprit of the crash. I mean, what happens when Time Machine backs up my pvm file while working in Windows...? The last six months i've had the "APFS fsroot tree is invalid" problem twice and the pvm...

Hi. I've had to disable SmartGuard because not only is deleting and creating snapshots painfully slow, but now it closes (force quits) all my open apps when the process ends. I come back and all I see is the desktop. Any ideas what could be going on? Thanks.

I have SmartGuard set to retain 5 snapshots which is the last three daily, the last weekly, and the last monthly. That used to work, but without changing any settings, SmartGuard simply stopped deleting snapshots. By the time my VM file had grown so large that the drive it's on was running out...

It is useful to have the SmartGuard system managing snaphots and maintaining a maximum of N Smartguard snapshots at any given time. However, sometimes it's desirable to take snapshots at critical points in time. Currently this can only be done by manually taking a non-smartguard snapshots, which...

Currently SmartGuard's automatic snapshot process initiates on its own schedule which is not under user control. Sometimes, when the user is in the middle of deleting one or more snapshots via the "Manage Snapshots" dialog, the SmartGuard process will initiate. If the snapshot currently being...