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Create the backup as a Parallels Desktop VM?

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Hello,

I would like to know if Acronis True Image can be used to create the backup as a Parallels Desktop VM?

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A.N.

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Ahmad-Reza, welcome to these public User Forums.

The answer to your question is 'it depends!'.

If you want full support for virtual machines, then you need to look at the Acronis business products which provide this, such as Acronis Cyber Backup.

If your virtual machine will be shutdown for the purpose of creating a backup, then yes, Acronis True Image can do this, because the virtual machine just another set of files to backup.

The other factor here is what OS platform is the virtual machine running on top of?

If this is Mac OS, then you need ATI for Mac; if it is Windows, then ATI for Windows.

If it is on a Linux OS platform, then again you need such as Acronis Cyber Backup which provides support for other OS platforms.

Building on this question, is it possible to recover individual files.  For example, I am using ATI on my Mac with Parallels Desktop, Windows 10 and QuickBooks Premier.  Could I recover my QB backup files or should I save them separately on another external drive?

Tad, welcome to these public User Forums.

You would be best advised to ask in the support forums for QuickBooks about the tools they provide for backing up your QB files and recovery of the same.

I have never used QB but understand that it holds locks on its data that ATI can have issues with if QB is open or active when backups are made.

As with other applications based around databases, use the backup tools provided by the vendor and then use Acronis to backup those backup archives which are then separate to the owning application.

Thank you, Steve, for your very prompt response!

I currently backup my QuickBook files using QB tools, as you suggested.  But they are in Disk C: on my iMac, which I can access using both QB and Window's File Manager.  In other words, they are on my internal hard drive and therefore vulnerable.

On my previous iMac, I used a Mac-based financial app, backed up its files internally and SuperDuper to backup my entire drive to an external drive, which gave me access to all that Mac's individual files on the external drive as well as a bootable duplicate of my entire internal drive.

Using ATI, I currently backup my internal drive to both an external drive and the Acronis Cloud, have access to all my individual OS X-based files and, having created an Acronis Bootable Media, can restore my entire drive . . . including my Parallels VM.  My question is this: Is there anyway to recover individual files created within the VM or is there only a single file, in effect, an image of the entire VM?  If the answer is no, I will want to save my QuickBook backups externally.  

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Tad Crawford wrote:

 My question is this: Is there anyway to recover individual files created within the VM or is there only a single file, in effect, an image of the entire VM?  If the answer is no, I will want to save my QuickBook backups externally.  

Hello Tad, with Acronis True Image is is only possible to recover PD virtual machines either as single files or as part of the Entire Mac recovery, some additional details here https://kb.acronis.com/content/62617 

Thank you, Ekaterina!  I just saw this.  Before I ask anything else, is there any way to be notified when someone posts to a given topic?

I do have several questions:

1) The link you cited above refers to Parallels Desktop 14.  Was that article written before the release of PD 15?  And if so, does PD 15 support both backing up and restoring a Windows 10 VM?

2) If it does, what file/s should I be looking for, and where is the best/most direct way to find it/them.  I think it is Windows 10 .pvm, which I have found in a Users>Shared>Parallels fonder on my hard drive.  Are any other files needed?

Thanks, in advance for your help.

Tad 

Tad Crawford wrote:

Thank you, Ekaterina!  I just saw this.  Before I ask anything else, is there any way to be notified when someone posts to a given topic?

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Ekaterina: Disregard this question.  I figured out how to be notified.  Thanks.