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Esschu wrote:
For now, I've set Parallels to NOT back-up via Time Machine and the regular back-ups are much faster (rarely a couple of GBs). So here are the questions I've been asking myself that I haven't been able to find great answers for:
Are the files that I work with/create in the VM being backed-up even though I've excluded Parallels from the Time Machine back-ups?
No.
I can tell you from experience that you will be better off backing up Parrallels in Time Machine.
It is quiet a shock if you ever have to restore you system from TM and you go to open Parralles and there is nothing there.
Desktop Time Zones
Parallels Desktop Time Machine Tutorial
I would suspect some of the files could be present depending on where they have been saved to however.
Free Desktop Time Clock
Mar 1, 2014 8:58 AM