A long time ago, I read a post in the Communities about backing up Workstation VMs by using snapshots. I run Workstation 9.02 under Windows 7 x64. Here is how I do it (via script):
suspend less important VMs
take a snapshot called BACKUP for VMs which can't be shut down
robocopy the VM subdir to an external disc
delete the BACKUP snapshot on the running VMs
resume the suspended VMs
I've been looking through the entire Community and I don't see this method described anywhere. I'm beginning to wonder if I'm doing it wrong?