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SD backups VmWare, WinXP, Mac OS???
I'm still not sure of the answer to this question and yesterday I had a small disaster with WinXP section on my VmWare but fixed it- my question is:
Does the SD backup include VmWare AND the WInXP which is running on it? Or does it just back up the Mac OS (running Leopard) which includes a VmWare icon on its desktop? This is really confusing to me....as maybe I don't have any backup to my WinXP (running via VmWare) at all???? Or do I really have it all (everything - Leopard,VmWare & Win XP) covered in the backups I do consistently with both SD & Time Machine on different backup drives? |
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If your VMWare data is stored on the same volume -- as a VMWare "disk image" -- and not in a separate "BootCamp" Partition, the data is backed up.
Note, though -- you should not run VMWare while you're backing up. You want its data to be fully written to disk when it's copied.
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Dave,
Let me clarify. My VmWare is not through BootCamp. I don't have to re-boot to get to it. I just click on a VmWare icon which sits on my iMac (Leopard) dock. When I click on that icon, it brings up Windows XP (and Windows programs) via the VmWare image. My question is while backing up with SD from my iMac....does it also backup the VmWare section AND Windows XP? OR is Windows XP and the VmWare image which permits it - excluded from the SD backup???? |
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I understand. And, as I said, as long as the data is being stored on the same volume -- as yours seems to be -- and you're not running it, it gets backed up.
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Vm Ware and Boot Camp
Along the same lines I do have VM on a boot camp partition. To back it up using SD I make an image file of the partition, put it on my desktop and then run a normal back up. I'm assuming that in worst case I could restore from my backup but then would have to add back in the boot camp partition and then copy the files over from the image file. Would that work and is there a better way to do it? Thanks.
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That'll certainly work, I think, but you could also use WinClone.
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