Back up snapshots folder in Time Machine

Hi,

I have turned off Time Machine backups for my virtual machine as it's very large. I am now 'backing' the VM up using snapshots, but this is only to my local disk. Is there a way to allow Time Machine to back them up to my backup volume? To do this I recon i need to have the Snapshots folder outside the .pvm folder. I've tried moving it and creating a symbolic link to it in the .pvm folder but it didn't work, got some error from Parallels about not being able to change permissions on the folder.

Anyone done this before or got any ideas?

Thanks

 

you have to move the file you want copied onto the mac first

the mac cant see the file in the vm so you have to create a scheduled task to move the current version of the file to a public folder on the mac, then the time machine will automatically back it up

 

How do you go about this 'scheduled task'? I too want to do this very same thing, by having only my Snapshots backed-up by Time Machine. If we 'MOVE' them out of the .PVM file (folder, that is), won't that undermine Parallels own Snapshot Management? Are you actually suggesting 'moving' or 'copying' these Snapshots.

Please advise how to do this automatically, if at all possible.

Thanks

Allan

 

So, I'm pretty much convinced that there's no simple way to accomplish this.

As a result, I've chosen to make my own 'simple' way . . . and that is, to maintain any/all of my personal files from Windows on my Mac volume (accessed from Windows via mapped drives; \\.psf\...etc....) and THIS way, I don't CARE what happens to my Virtual Machine if it's only containing my Windows installation and applications . . . where my critical data is simply found on my Mac volume and can then QUITE easily be Backed-up by Time Machine.

Works like a charm.

Allan