![]() While that won’t work for my specific use case, I appreciate the suggestion and will keep it in mind for the future. Thanks for the explanation of how we can use shared & mirrored folders to keep our Windows files backed up via Time Machine, by letting Fusion keep a copy of the them in a TM-accessible location on our OS X disks. These oversights make this blog entry less than helpful and leads me to my conclusion that it is driven more by the sales people and very little by the tech people. True? Of course, why should I expect an honest discussion here? Marketing is not about honesty.ģ) You did not address the question of whether the VM folders should be excluded from Time Machine, which was your previous recommendation (exclude and back up the VM separately). In a comment on your first blog entry on this subject I placed a link to a thread in the discussions forum where a few old salts stated this belief. Don’t use the term “mirroring” if you don’t mean duplicates.Ģ) You did not address concerns that this auto-protect feature actually increases the likelihood of corruption of the virtual disk. One fails, the files are duplicated on the other. Mirroring that doesn’t create duplicates? In this industry, mirroring means duplicates! I have a NAS device that mirrors the files across two drives. than the technical people.ġ) Poor wording. I had expected more, but probably this was written more by the marketing dept. This will allow you to have a back up of your entire virtual machine, without taking quite as big of a toll on the hard drive that Time Machine backs up to. By using Auto protect you can greatly decrease the size of the Virtual Machine files that Time Machine backs up. Its important to note that when you are backing up a Virtual Machine using Time Machine, due to the large nature of the files you will most likely see your backup drive fill up faster than normal. With last weeks post we had some folks asking for more clarification regarding Time Machine Backup and VMware Fusion 4. Its important to note that VMware Fusion does not create duplicates of the files in the mirroring process, but simply creates one folder that’s accessible from Mac OS X and your Virtual Machine. Again, because these files are stored on the Mac, this makes it easy for you to always have a backup of your commonly used files. In this case mirrored folders allows you to select an entire folder such as Documents or Downloads and VMware Fusion will automatically mirror the entire folder. Mirrored folders work in a similar way to shared folders. Once you’ve selected the folder, you can simply drop the files into the shared folder to share between Mac OS and your Virtual Machine, because these files are stored in Mac OS X they will automatically be backed up via Time Machine. ![]() This is a good way to manually select the files that you would like to have backed up via Time Machine. To choose the folders you would like to share, click the plus button to browse your Mac’s hard drive. Sharing folders allows you to select a folder and have access to any files stored inside that folder in both Mac OS and your Virtual Machine. You can access shared and mirrored folders in the settings menu under “Sharing” Here we will walk you through the process of how to set up mirrored and shared folders. Shared and Mirrored folders are an great way to backup just the files you need such as, documents, movies, and music using Time Machine. This week we thought we would take a closer look at some other options you have to back up your Virtual Machine.īack up just the files you need with shared and mirrored folders. Last week we covered how to use use Time Machine to back up your Virtual Machines using VMware Fusion 4.
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