Help me to get my head around Time Machine/VMware fusion + Snapshots

Well, then it seems that Time Machine under Leopard and snapshots (set to auto) are of a similar nature.  Time Machine is be all end all, or try to anyway.  I guess my question is double:

1.) if Time Machine backs up everything: hourly, daily, weekly, etc.  Autosnapshots in VMware is an exaggeration?  Maybe it's just a personal decision, but I would like to hear comments on it so that I can make a more informed choice.

2.) I have heard several different stories of Time Machine, not backup of virtual machines / support their place too often... it's what history on it?  I use the newer of the two: Fusion and Leopard.  All software are up to date.

Please help me understand.  Thank you.

First thing I want to mention is that I do not consider stereotypes as backup solutions because they are stored on the local drive. If the disk down both your virtual machines and snapshots are parties.

In terms of time Machine, I've seen users have limited success. In general, I wouldn't recommend using Time Machine with VM as it will save all changes (once per hour). When the virtual machine is open it is constantly evolving. You can imagine what it's going to make your backup storage when Time Machine backs up your 20 GB VM every hour.

My best and easiest solution is simply to drag and drop the virtual computer on an external drive from time to time. If you are more concerned with the information (documents, etc.) in the virtual machine and not the virtual machine, an automated way would be to Shard folders such as installation Documents and have Time Machine backs up those specific folders.

I hope this helps.

Eric

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