![]() ![]() If you go for a certain time without being connected to your external hard drive, once you connect your computer will copy all of the local snapshots as backups onto that external drive. This local snapshots feature is important if you lose a file while on the go, and we presume it works hand-in-hand with the new “Versions” feature in Lion, which allows you to view the evolution of your documents. Your Mac will take these local snapshots every hour and store them on your Mac’s internal hard disk.Īpple warns that Time Machine should really be used with an external hard drive, as its true purpose is to protect your files when your local disk malfunctions. By default it is the VM folder itself, but you can. ![]() If you go to VM Settings -> General -> Advanced, you can select the Snapshot Folder. Actually, this is an incorrect statement. VirtualBox always locates snapshots inside the VM folder. Local Snapshots allows you to use the helpful Time Machine backup feature without an external hard drive and instead makes a local snapshot of all file changes. It isnt possible to have the VM on drive G and the snapshots on C. Apple has really touched every aspect of of the operating system for the Lion update and we’ve discovered a major new feature for Time Machine: ‘Local Snapshots’. ![]()
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