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Backup:

Two scenarios:

  1. You have important software/data in the VM (research, etc) - Install TSM within your VM and have it run regular backups of the data within your VM.
  2. Your VM is an appliance - We recommend that the sys admin manually makes backups.  Drag and copy it somewhere (IE: an external drive). Exclude your VM files from regular backups via TSM.  See 2, 3 below for reasons.

Things to note:

  1. Mac: time machine does not backup virtual machine files.
  2. A VM image is actually several files and they all have to be in sync or behavior is erratic.
  3. From outside the VM (host machine), if backup made when virtual machine is running the result is inconsistent.  Back it up when it's not running.
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