| Harry, I take your point there is a functional difference between saving/restoring system configuration parameters, and saving/restoring user data. Saving/restoring system parameters really should not be necessary more than once--that is, once you get a stabile running system. The only reason to make multiple or sequential backups of system parameters would be when you install and uninstall many apps. But why would you want to do that? Unless you are an app testing geek (e.g., a pc magazine editor), never change a running system. For testing new apps, I have a separate testbed machine with a single "perfect state" image to restore if I don't like any new app. If I do like the new app, it goes on the workhorse machine (after road testing on the testbed machine). I do not know of any recovery suite which guarantees system-parameter roll-back while leaving subsequent user data intact. ≪Do you happen to know where I could find the files storing Snapshots, so I can locate these and get their dates? That would be helpful.≫ Sorry, I'm not using Parallels or Snapshots, so I am not familiar with the file-folder conventions. For backing up my VM, I just drag-n-drop the whole *.vpc file to an external hardisk (manually dating them as I go). For backing up the Mac-specific stuff, the TimeMachine function (OSX Leopard) stores its recovery files in dated folders including one called simply "latest". |