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[Howard Brazee]

I'd like to exclude my Parallels file (and my backup of the VM), from incremental Mac backups - but I'd like to back-up important Windows files anyway.

The ideal way to do this is to have a Windows backup program that created a file outside of Parallels that gets backed up by my Mac backup.

How do people back up their Windows changes?

 

[Eru Ithildur]

cron job to back-up the .hdd file.

You can probably use Shared Folders to set-up what you want. I think Hugh was the first advocate of storing all files in Shared Folders on the OS X side.

 

[northflux2]

Is there a way of issuing a shut down to the VM from an os X side script, so I can cron a clean backup and then a similar startup?

We have a few machines these days running xp vm's on parallels, and would like to be able to script a shut down -- backup -- startup at 3am, to a linux server. I can do all this manually but would really like to take myself out of the loop.

Thanks....

 

[kms_md]

Is there a way of issuing a shut down to the VM from an os X side script, so I can cron a clean backup and then a similar startup?

We have a few machines these days running xp vm's on parallels, and would like to be able to script a shut down -- backup -- startup at 3am, to a linux server. I can do all this manually but would really like to take myself out of the loop.

Thanks....

applescript along the lines of tell application parallels "quit" (i would have to look up the actual correct "verbage"). save as an .app and run before you run your backup. make sure that parallels is set to suspend on quit. you can restart by writing an applescript to activate your .pvs after the backup is completed.

 

[Specialist]

The code for applescript is like this:

tell application "AppNameHere" to quit

conversely

tell application "AppNameHere" to run

 

[kms_md]

The code for applescript is like this:


conversely

to open your pvs file, you could script:

tell application Finder to open "YourPVSFile.pvs"