Back up trouble

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by frough46f, Oct 29, 2018.

  1. frough46f

    frough46f Bit poster

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    I'm running parrallels on my mac and have windows 10 and windows xp works fine.
    I use Time Machine on mac to continuously back up to a separate hard drive.
    I had a print problem the other day when I jammed a label printer and disconnected the power cord for repair.
    I decided that the best way to go was to use the time machine to get it back as it was a few hours ago.
    Disaster!!!!!! I lost a month working on Windows 10 side (XP was not accessed for a while).
    I understand that Time Machine has taken a hard drive image every day, but that seems to be just the case for the Mac side and NOT the virtual Windows side.
    This took me 3 days and lacked confidence in what and was not backed up.
    Certainly this is a problem that was cut earlier!
    Or I'm totally missing something.
     
  2. RogerH6

    RogerH6 Hunter

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    Unless you excluded it, the Windows drive should have been included. It is not though visible as a normal drive. It'll be a file called something like Windows.pvm (depending on what the machine is called). This 'contains' the virtual drives.
     
  3. Arun@Parallels

    Arun@Parallels Parallels Support

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    Hi @frough46f , please check for "pvm" file on the back up and check if you are able to find any files. That is your virtual machine.
     

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