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Virtual PC sleepimage not being copied?
I have a SuperDuper backup clone of my hard drive and another clone made from the first one, on identical volumes on two different drives. When I use Get Info, the first clone is about 3.5 GB larger than the second one, although taken individually, the four directories (Applications, LIbrary, System and Users) are the same size size in each clone.
Using WhatSize to examine the volumes, I see that the first one has another directory, "4.14 GB private," in which there is a "3.35 GB vm" folder, in which in turn there is a "3.22 GB sleepimage." This is obviously from my VMWare Fusion virtual PC. My question is, why doesn't SuperDuper copy the sleepimage file--whatever that is--also? By the way, the virtual PC is not suspended in the first clone, but shut down, as it was on the original drive when that clone was created. Thank you, David |
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No, that has nothing to do with Fusion. It's your Mac's sleep image, and since your Mac isn't asleep, there's no point copying it.
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All sorts of things - I do try to indicate this in the "What's going to happen?" section: various temporary files, swap files, sleep images and the like aren't copied, since they have no meaning across a restart and/or will interfere with restoration to a different Mac.
With a "pure" data drive, the sizes will be closer, but even then the Spotlight information may be different (since it's preserved on the destination).
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I knew about temporary and system-specific files not being copied, but sleep images were not on my radar and since this was so large (3.5 GB), I thought something might be wrong. David |
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