Time Machine back up filling with Fusion 2.0.1 Boot Camp virtual machine

Hi all, I want to report and share something (don't actually know if it's a bug).
I finally solved an issue that was maddening me since weeks: my Leopard 10.5.6 Time Machine was backing up lots of gigabytes of data even if I wasn't writing to files that much lately. I tried to exclude everything I was aware of having a large size, and I even did not have a Fusion VM at all at a certain point in */Users/MyUser/Documents/Virtual Machines*. The only virtual machine I am using is the virtualized Bootcamp partition with Vista installed. But I didn't care about it because I was sure Time Machine wasn't going to backup it (i.e. I thought it was excluded by default being another partition!). Instead, I finally succeded in tracking down (with a free app called "Time Tracker", google for it) the culprit to a *Boot Camp partition.vmwarevm* file, several gigabytes large (actually large as much as the used space in the Boot Camp partition), that's found under
*/Users/MyUser/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/Boot Camp/%2Fdev%2Fdisk0*
So I went in Time Machine options dialog and excluded */Users/MyUser/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/Boot Camp*.
Then the problem was solved...now I need only to mount the sparsebundle and erase all the old backups of that file to recover some more space in Time Capsule...
Hopefully this will be helpful to someone else!
Cheers!

AppleRyck wrote:
Hi all, I want to report and share something (don't actually know if it's a bug).
I finally solved an issue that was maddening me since weeks: my Leopard 10.5.6 Time Machine was backing up lots of gigabytes of data even if I wasn't writing to files that much lately. I tried to exclude everything I was aware of having a large size, and I even did not have a Fusion VM at all at a certain point in */Users/MyUser/Documents/Virtual Machines*. The only virtual machine I am using is the virtualized Bootcamp partition with Vista installed. But I didn't care about it because I was sure Time Machine wasn't going to backup it (i.e. I thought it was excluded by default being another partition!).
No, not a bug. By default TM will back-up any drive/partition it can read, except the TM backup drive/partition itself.

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