Can I/How do I automatically back up Windows XP files to Apple Time Capsule?

[BobAir]

I'm trying to learn my new Macbook. We have a Time Capsule and I'd like to know whether/how I can automatically back up Windows files to the Time Capsule. I asked at the Genius bar and they said they don't support Windows on the Mac (no surprise).

Thanks.

Bob

[RiteshK]

Yes,you can backup your Virtual machine using Time capsule.

to perform this you can take help from below link:

http://apcmag.com/apple_time_capsule_1tb.htm

But backing up your VMWare virtual machine with Time Machine,

you will be wasting lots of space on your backup drive. The virtual machine

is a single file. Every time you open the virtual machine, it changes.

So, Time Machine will back it up every time.

As part of the back up process, Time Machine makes duplicate copies of

all non-excluded files, as those files change. As such, Time Machine

will make a new copy of any virtual machine that has run since the last

time Time Machine ran. Because virtual machines have a tendency to be

large files (just like iMovie projects, or Aperture Libraries), and

might take up large amounts of space with duplicate copies on your Time

Machine hard drive, you may want to consider manually excluding certain

virtual machines from backup in Time Machine’s preference pane.

[camembware]

Time Machine will automatically backup the files in a shared folder.

So you have to decide what folders really need to be backed up and whether declare them as shared, or devise a way to automatically copy the plain files or a windows backup file in a shared folder that will be backed up.

Hope this helps.

[RiteshK]

Have a look on below link :

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1252569#1252569