I will be running WinXP Pro, as a guest OS, on a daily basis to run business software that is only available for Windows. The output from this software is under one directory. it is this directory that I want to back up on a daily basis.
My question is can I use a backup program within Windows, as I do now, to perform a daily backup directly to a folder on the Mac, or possibly a shared folder that will allow Time Machine to backup this folder when it is backing my Mac machine so that all the backups are stored in one central location?
Thanks in advance for any and all help.
I will be running Leopard on a shiny new iMac, when it arrives.
Regards,
Darren
Setup time Machine to exclude the actual VM folder. On the desktop of the VM you should have your Mac Documents folder via "VMWare Shared Folders". Have your backup sw put the backup files there. Time Machine will get it without any special tweaking.
My question is can I use a backup program within Windows, as I do now, to perform a daily backup directly to a folder on the Mac, or possibly a shared folder that will allow Time Machine to backup this folder when it is backing my Mac machine so that all the backups are stored in one central location?
I think that should work.
Thanks for the reply. ANy idea how do do this?
Cheers
Setup time Machine to exclude the actual VM folder. On the desktop of the VM you should have your Mac Documents folder via "VMWare Shared Folders". Have your backup sw put the backup files there. Time Machine will get it without any special tweaking.
>Setup time Machine to exclude the actual VM folder. On the desktop of the VM you should have your Mac Documents folder via "VMWare Shared Folders". Have your backup sw put the backup files there. Time Machine will get it without any special tweaking.
Yes--this is what I do too, but is there a particular reason to have the shared folder on the VM's desktop?
Thank you,
David
Its there by default. I don't know if you could specifically mount the shared folders as a drive. That would be nice.
I'm new to this (both iMac & Fusion) & I need a little clarification. Does this mean I drag the "VMware Shared Folders" to the VM desktop, then open up the documents folder and put in the folder I want backed up in there? I want to backup Quicken, Palm Desktop, etc. Do I put a shortcut to those programs in the documents folder, or what?
Thanks for any help you can give me with this!
Does this mean I drag the "VMware Shared Folders" to the VM desktop, then open up the documents folder and put in the folder I want backed up in there?
If you used the Easy Install, we'll create a shortcut on the virtual machine's desktop for you pointing at the appropriate place,
.host\Shared Folders You'll also have to have enabled shared folders in the virtual machine's Settings.
Yes, I used Easy Install. After This happens
we'll create a shortcut on the virtual machine's desktop for you pointing at the appropriate place,
.host\Shared Folders. You'll also have to have enabled shared folders in the virtual machine's Settings.
Then what do? Do I put a link to the programs I want backed up?
I use a backup program "SecondCopy" in my virtual Windows XP inside my
iMac. What should I specify as my destination folder for SecondCopy?
Also, should I back up my entire virtual c drive or only selected folders?