VMware Communities: Message List - backups

Re: backups

tuni — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:40:49 GMT

Mandar,

Just to clarify your suggestion - will this backup my fusionWindows and the program folders I have on it? Or does it just back up the vmware fusion itself?
If I understand this whole process correctly, vmwarefusion IS on the Mac HD right? It is not actually a partition.

Therefore, maybe the vmware fusion is backed up by the Time Machine backup process?

So, what I am trying to backup is the fusionWindows "section" and the application folders I placed on that?

Would what you suggest below do that????

Sorry if I'm being obtuse here....

Many thanks

Petunia

Re: backups

MandarMS — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:10:43 GMT

On Mac system your virtual machine is a bundle file Default path for the VM is /Users/User Name/Documents/Virtual machine/<Virtual Machine Name>.vmwarevm, .vmwarevm bundle file is your Virtual machine, you can simply copy this to external HDD or in Network folder

whenever you want to get your Old VM you can copy the VM to Mac system and run in VMware Fusion

backups

tuni — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:57:20 GMT

Is there a simple way to backup vmwarefusion & Windows? I browsed through the backup text however it seems totally beyond me.....Can I possibly use a Windows backup program to backup both the vmware & Windows such as Karen's replicator, retrospect, Iomega, xxclone or?????

thanks for any "simple" suggestions...

tuni