Timemachine Restore Previous Version Of Parallels

Esschu wrote:

For now, I've set Parallels to NOT back-up via Time Machine and the regular back-ups are much faster (rarely a couple of GBs). So here are the questions I've been asking myself that I haven't been able to find great answers for:

Jun 21, 2014 Davis, CA. My virtual machine recently became corrupt and wouldn't open (not sure why) so I decided to restore the VM from a Time Machine backup. I restored the entire Parallels folder (where the VM was located). However, after the restore, I noticed that the folder was empty. I entered Time Machine again and the Parallels. Time Machine did its first backup of 215GB Ok and seemed to continue to just copy the modified files thereafter, just a few KB. But, then I realised that if Parallels is open, the backup will contain the whole of the Virtual machine, and it copies 194GB every time, every 3 hours, so my HDD is full in one day. Apr 14, 2021 Locate the virtual machine on your old Mac hard drive. Note: in order to transfer a Boot Camp partition, see KB 113658 By default, virtual machine files are located either in Documents/Parallels folder inside your user folder, or in /Users/Shared/Parallels.

Are the files that I work with/create in the VM being backed-up even though I've excluded Parallels from the Time Machine back-ups?

No.

I can tell you from experience that you will be better off backing up Parrallels in Time Machine.

It is quiet a shock if you ever have to restore you system from TM and you go to open Parralles and there is nothing there.

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I would suspect some of the files could be present depending on where they have been saved to however.

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Mar 1, 2014 8:58 AM