Hello,
I want to backup my virtual machine once per day with Time Machine. but it skips backup of virtual machine while after I used virtual machine and I checked my vmdk file has modified. I can see it easily from Console.app as follows. strangely, backupd said that 103.9 GB required but copied only 370KB.
2015/01/28 21:25:25.587 com.apple.backupd[4316]: Starting manual backup
2015/01/28 21:25:25.591 com.apple.backupd[4316]: Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Data
2015/01/28 21:25:32.989 com.apple.backupd[4316]: Disk image already attached: /Volumes/Data/macbook-white.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35
2015/01/28 21:25:34.349 com.apple.backupd[4316]: Disk image /Volumes/Data/macbook-white.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine バックアップ
2015/01/28 21:25:35.421 com.apple.backupd[4316]: Backing up to /dev/disk2s2: /Volumes/Time Machine バックアップ/Backups.backupdb
2015/01/28 21:25:35.804 com.apple.backupd[4316]: Will copy (86.01 GB) from Macintosh HD
2015/01/28 21:25:35.805 com.apple.backupd[4316]: Found 54 files (86.01 GB) needing backup
2015/01/28 21:25:35.814 com.apple.backupd[4316]: 103.9 GB required (including padding), 1.02 TB available
2015/01/28 21:25:40.701 com.apple.backupd[4316]: Copied 48 items (370 KB) from volume Macintosh HD. Linked 487.
2015/01/28 21:25:50.203 com.apple.backupd[4316]: Created new backup: 2015-01-28-212549
2015/01/28 21:25:50.560 com.apple.backupd[4316]: Starting post-backup thinning
2015/01/28 21:25:50.564 com.apple.backupd[4316]: No post-backup thinning needed: no expired backups exist
2015/01/28 21:25:50.621 com.apple.backupd[4316]: Backup completed successfully.
2015/01/28 21:25:51.000 kernel[0]: hfs: unmount initiated on Time Machine バックアップ on device disk2s2
Of course I definitely checked exclusion list of Time Machine is empty. why is it excluded from backup? how can I backup the virtual machine with Time Machine? I'm using OS X 10.10 and VMware Fusion 6.0.5.
Thanks.