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Obscure (Maybe) Time Machine Question

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btrav13

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Apr 8, 2010
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I recently purchased a new 15inch MPB i7. I am using the same external drive that I used with my Air for Time Machine...with one slight difference: this new MBP has 75GB of the HDD dedicated to a Windows 7 partition.

Time Machine is now backing up a HUGE file (my MAC info plus the Windows 7 partition). I read somewhere in here about setting Time Machine to NOT back up the Windows partition. I have combed all through my Time Machine settings and cannot figure out how to do this. If anyone knows, PLEASE, I beg you, help me out :) This backup will take FOREVER every time if I don't rectify this and I'm not genius enough to figure this out on my own :(
 
System Preferences
> Time Machine
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> Options
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Select the folder, where your VMs are stored, which is most likely Macintosh HD / Users / YOU / Documents / Virtual Machines.

via http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427
found via http://www.google.com/search?client...8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=C3nKS-nCIs2ZOID-6fYF
 
He mentioned that he has a partition, as if he is using Boot Camp and not a virtualization program. If that's the case, Time Machine only backs up your OSX partition. It doesn't back up other OS partitions on your hard drive. Right?
 
Hermolicious84 said:
He mentioned that he has a partition, as if he is using Boot Camp and not a virtualization program. If that's the case, Time Machine only backs up your OSX partition. It doesn't back up other OS partitions on your hard drive. Right?
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Good catch.

And yes, TM does not back up the Windows partition, as it uses another file system, either NTFS or FAT32.


OP, it seems you have to use Disk Inventory X, Omni DiskSweeper or Grandperspective to scan your HDD for some big files.
 
n00b time machine question

I'm not entirely sure what to search for so have drawn a blank. Hope someone can help!

I have a macbook pro that I have just sold on eBay. I want to back up everything on the hard disk to an external drive and then put said stuff I have/had onto my mac desktop. If I use time machine, will it overwrite what's already on the mac desktop, e.g, how leopard is set up and what's in the documents folders etc etc, or will it merge the two??
 
DoFoT9 said:
bootcamp has to be NTFS. so ya.

have a good walk, buy me ice cream!
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With XP, Boot Camp can be in FAT32 (I don't know about Windows 6 and 6.1 though), one can just use the formatting tool in the setup assistant to format the partition with NTFS.



And was banana okay? They were out of pear.
 
DoFoT9 and spinnerlys: Quit it, you two. Now I'm confused. :D

drpellypo said:
I'm not entirely sure what to search for so have drawn a blank. Hope someone can help!

I have a macbook pro that I have just sold on eBay. I want to back up everything on the hard disk to an external drive and then put said stuff I have/had onto my mac desktop. If I use time machine, will it overwrite what's already on the mac desktop, e.g, how leopard is set up and what's in the documents folders etc etc, or will it merge the two??
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You can't restore a Time Machine backup over top of an existing system. You'll have to copy your important files over manually.
 
Sorry. I am using Parallels. So the first poster to respond I am assuming had the correct information? Maybe I don't have a partition, I don't know...I paid Best Buy to do this for me :(


Edit: I'm not seeing a "Virtual Machine" folder anywhere, not even through the first path provided. There is a "Parallels" folder though, is that right?
 
Yeah, spinnerlys' original post was correct.

By default, I believe virtual machines are saved to ~/Library/Parallels, where ~ is your user home folder.
 
BlueRevolution said:
Yeah, spinnerlys' original post was correct.

By default, I believe virtual machines are saved to ~/Library/Parallels, where ~ is your user home folder.
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Awesome! Think I got it...I just told it to never sync the parallels folder, so hopefully I'm good...that first backup was ridiculous! Thank you everyone!
 
drpellypo said:
I'm not entirely sure what to search for so have drawn a blank. Hope someone can help!

I have a macbook pro that I have just sold on eBay. I want to back up everything on the hard disk to an external drive and then put said stuff I have/had onto my mac desktop. If I use time machine, will it overwrite what's already on the mac desktop, e.g, how leopard is set up and what's in the documents folders etc etc, or will it merge the two??
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Just plug your mac into the HDD then drag your entire user folder onto the HDD on your desktop. Then you can drag it onto your desktop.

Are you planning on buying another MBP? If you are you can back up using time machine then plug the new MBP into the HDD BEFORE you turn it on for the first time. Then boot it up and after the into movie plays select set up from time machine back up
 
Actually, VMware stores its virtual machines in ~/Documents/Virtual Machines. CrossOver saves to ~/Library/Application Support/CrossOver, though. Anyway, you were the one actually talking about the right program. ;)
 
BlueRevolution said:
Actually, VMware stores its virtual machines in ~/Documents/Virtual Machines. CrossOver saves to ~/Library/Application Support/CrossOver, though. Anyway, you were the one actually talking about the right program. ;)
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hahaha i had no idea what was going on - just vaguely read the thread just before going to bed and replied! the more the better though! future readers of this thread will know where all the virtual programs save their HDDs! hehe
 
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