I'm using time machine on an external drive to back up my mac latop. I doubt I'm going to have it that easy for files in my VM. Whats the best way to handle backing up the vm? The .hdd is too big to include in the back up routine. A weekly routine should suffice, but I'm curious what problems may occur. I'll probably just have a networked drive that will back up all the necessary files for parallels to recover the VM. What files should I target? Will just the .hdd suffice? I'm not too familiar with the mac OS yet but some kind of .bat file routine that would zip the parallels files and dump them to a network drive would be great. Is there some kind of parallels tool that will export everything to a compressed file that I don't know about? Thanks in advance for any tips,
My suggestion is as following: 1. Exclude Documents/Parallels folder from Time Machine backup 2. Use simple copy procedure for VM folder or clone VM feature (not snapshots) as described in Parallels Desktop for Mac user guide from http://www.parallels.com/en/download/file/doc/Parallels_Desktop_for_Mac_User_Guide.pdf on page 243
