Backing up mac backs up windows files thru parallels?

Do I need to backup my Windows files & programs separetly from my Mac backups. Currently using Time Machine, but out of space on my current EHD (500 GB). Planning to purchase a larger EHD (2-3 TB?). Any suggestions? Will Time Machine automatically back up my Windows files & programs enough for reinstallation if needed, or should I be backing them up separately? It seems to take a lot of space, or better to make files of each with essentials on the EHD? Thanks, PSA

As I said, you can quite likely restore the entire virtual machine from Time Machine. If that's enough for you, and if you can afford a backup disk large enough to handle the additional load, you can certainly stick with Time Machine. If you want to be able to restore selected Windows files, you need the granularity of a backup program that is aware of individual Windows files; Time Machine is not.
A note from the Parallels help files (version 8):
Warning: Time Machine backups can guarantee safety only when your Parallels virtual machines were stopped or suspended during the backup.
I don't know whether it's available in version 7, but version 8 includes a program Parallels Mounter that can be used to access individual files in a virtual machine's Time Machine backup. This, and the fact that Parallels now splits virtual hard drives into 2GB stripes by default makes my recommendation somewhat obsolete, but not entirely. Using Parallels Mounter requires some steps that may make some users uncomfortable, and changes in the virtual machine may not be confined to one or a few stripes at a time.

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MacBose wrote:
I have just recently bought an iMac with OS Lion.
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