How Does SD Work With Virtualization?

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Originally Posted by dnanian

Most standard installations create a 'disk image' hosted on your HFS+ volume. Inside that image is a virtual Windows disk, and that's what's backed up.

Parallels/VMWare/etc should not be running when you back up.

TM is a problem because these images tend to be very large, and backing them up each time would result in a lot of disk space being used. Since SD! doesn't keep multiple versions, it's not a problem.

Thanks. So the disk 'image' does not affect the file system itself then?
And SD still backs up the entire image, it just doesn't keep each new version and simply overwrites the previous version?