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Parallels disk image tough on Time Machine?
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<blockquote data-quote="wlow" data-source="post: 649055" data-attributes="member: 54907"><p>I remember reading that an application like Outlook could be tough on Time Machine because it uses one big data file that changes often, and so Time Machine has to keep wirting this entire file to the external disk (unlike Mail.app that, I believe, keeps its data as individual files so that only the relatively smaller files that change get backed up).</p><p></p><p>If this is correct, does this mean that the Parallels entire disc image must be written and rewritten every hour (or whatever) by Time Machine because it's essentually one potentially huge file (if that's how Parallels does it)?</p><p></p><p>Is it possible to backup, say, Outlook's data (from inside Parallels running XP) to a separate disk as you normally would running XP natively -- that is, saving the data separate and "outside" of the disk image Parallels work with?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wlow, post: 649055, member: 54907"] I remember reading that an application like Outlook could be tough on Time Machine because it uses one big data file that changes often, and so Time Machine has to keep wirting this entire file to the external disk (unlike Mail.app that, I believe, keeps its data as individual files so that only the relatively smaller files that change get backed up). If this is correct, does this mean that the Parallels entire disc image must be written and rewritten every hour (or whatever) by Time Machine because it's essentually one potentially huge file (if that's how Parallels does it)? Is it possible to backup, say, Outlook's data (from inside Parallels running XP) to a separate disk as you normally would running XP natively -- that is, saving the data separate and "outside" of the disk image Parallels work with? [/QUOTE]
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