Comments on: Efficient backups: storing VMs in a sparse bundle http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/2009/06/backing-up-virtual-machine-using-sparse-bundle/ Welcome to Mark Wheadon's blog; I hope you find it useful. Feel free to comment on anything you read here. Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:29:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: TechMan http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/2009/06/backing-up-virtual-machine-using-sparse-bundle/comment-page-1/#comment-1006 TechMan Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:32:38 +0000 http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/?p=834#comment-1006 Great article. Seems like it would also work with multiple VM Instances a single sparsebundle. That would allow me to also save time with my linux instances. Great article.

Seems like it would also work with multiple VM Instances a single sparsebundle. That would allow me to also save time with my linux instances.

]]> By: Sophtware http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/2009/06/backing-up-virtual-machine-using-sparse-bundle/comment-page-1/#comment-1002 Sophtware Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:20:08 +0000 http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/?p=834#comment-1002 This works great. The only problem I am having now is that adding the sparsebundles to my login items is not mounting them on login. It was working for a while. But now I have to mount the sparsebundles every time I login. This works great. The only problem I am having now is that adding the sparsebundles to my login items is not mounting them on login. It was working for a while. But now I have to mount the sparsebundles every time I login.

]]> By: Sam Price http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/2009/06/backing-up-virtual-machine-using-sparse-bundle/comment-page-1/#comment-979 Sam Price Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:12:44 +0000 http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/?p=834#comment-979 I've been looking for this article for months now. I was running out of patience. Thank you so much, you saved my hard disk! I’ve been looking for this article for months now. I was running out of patience. Thank you so much, you saved my hard disk!

]]> By: Kelly Martin http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/2009/06/backing-up-virtual-machine-using-sparse-bundle/comment-page-1/#comment-974 Kelly Martin Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:15:07 +0000 http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/?p=834#comment-974 What an excellent article! This is a best practice for VMware Fusion on OS X Leopard, and the article is laid out in a very clear and simple format. I hope you posted a link to this on the VMware forums, as it is very useful. Almost everyone using a modern Mac (with OS X 10.5 Leopard or newer) is likely using Time Machine, and we all experience very lengthy backups when not using this approach. For myself, I have several virtual machines, one is my Windows XP work computer. It is nearly 80 Gb, which is a tremendous amount of desktop data to be backed up each day. Especially using a wireless connection and Time Capsule, it normally takes several hours. I used to exclude all VMs from being backed up using Time Machine, and instead used SuperDuper to make a clone of my drive every week or two. But if I forgot to do this, my VM backups would get quite old... I'll see how much faster backups are when the VM is inside a sparsebundle using Time Machine... I am sure it will be dramatically less data transfered. Thanks for writing this. Kelly What an excellent article! This is a best practice for VMware Fusion on OS X Leopard, and the article is laid out in a very clear and simple format. I hope you posted a link to this on the VMware forums, as it is very useful.

Almost everyone using a modern Mac (with OS X 10.5 Leopard or newer) is likely using Time Machine, and we all experience very lengthy backups when not using this approach. For myself, I have several virtual machines, one is my Windows XP work computer. It is nearly 80 Gb, which is a tremendous amount of desktop data to be backed up each day. Especially using a wireless connection and Time Capsule, it normally takes several hours. I used to exclude all VMs from being backed up using Time Machine, and instead used SuperDuper to make a clone of my drive every week or two. But if I forgot to do this, my VM backups would get quite old… I’ll see how much faster backups are when the VM is inside a sparsebundle using Time Machine… I am sure it will be dramatically less data transfered. Thanks for writing this.

Kelly

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