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Jul 13, 2010
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Hi all.

I am looking for advice from folk who have Parallels 6 and do back-ups through Time Machine.

I started using Parallels with version 5 when my last PC died.

Backing up my data was critical and after seeing how Time Machine treated the Virtual Machine file on back-ups, I quickly excluded the VM from Time Machine back-ups and instead opted for a schedule of back-ups through iBackup.

I just noticed in the Parallels update that version 6 features an option to make the back-ups work better with Time Machine through a new 'Optimize for Time Machine' function.

Can anyone with experience detail to me how large the hourly back-ups are through Time Machine of the image? My VM is on pretty much all day due to work requirements and I would rather not have Time Machine running all day also.

My VM size is around 20gb.

Thanks for any help!
 
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