2017-05-22, 23:34:59
Hello Kevin,
Thank you for the question, it is always interesting to hear about particular usage scenarios.
Yes that is fine.
It is not a problem to backup to the same disk as where your time machine backups are located.
The only potential issue I see is if both (TM and Vimalin) are running a large backup job at the same time, in that scenario there will be some disk IO congestion.
But that normally is not a big issue as Time Machine has small incremental backups once you exclude virtual machines from the backup.
So in most cases this is a non issue.
Only when you generate lots of data that TM has to back up over night, it might become better to have Vimalin backup to another disk so that you can spread the disk IO operations over multiple disks.
Please note that disk IO congestion just means that it takes longer for the job to complete, not that it will cause issues with the backup itself.
Hope this helps,
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Wil
Thank you for the question, it is always interesting to hear about particular usage scenarios.
Yes that is fine.
It is not a problem to backup to the same disk as where your time machine backups are located.
The only potential issue I see is if both (TM and Vimalin) are running a large backup job at the same time, in that scenario there will be some disk IO congestion.
But that normally is not a big issue as Time Machine has small incremental backups once you exclude virtual machines from the backup.
So in most cases this is a non issue.
Only when you generate lots of data that TM has to back up over night, it might become better to have Vimalin backup to another disk so that you can spread the disk IO operations over multiple disks.
Please note that disk IO congestion just means that it takes longer for the job to complete, not that it will cause issues with the backup itself.
Hope this helps,
--
Wil