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Re: disk images

Jim Douglas wrote:

I stumbled over that one when I started using VMware on Leopard. Every time I touched one of my VMware images, Time Machine obediently backed up the entire multi-gigabyte image, which destroyed system performance and rapidly filled up my backup drive. I had to add the VMware image files to Time Machine's exclusion list, then remember to back them up manually from time to time.


FWIW, and off-topic for this list: a sparse bundle disk image should prevent this problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_image

Disk Utility.app on OS 10.5+ can create sparse bundle disk images. Click New Image tool and look under the Image Format popup.

  -- GG

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