Having backups is important. Unfortunately Time Machine is known to be a problem with Virtual Machines. Especially if your VM is not shut down at the time of the backup.

You can schedule backups of your virtual machine. So you will not forget to make them. Backups can be made reliably when your VM is running.

You do not have to install anything in your Virtual Machine. Because Vimalin employs VMware automation, it works for all guest OS types.

Using Vimalin gives you a better handle on your backups, where they are, how much space they occupy and if the backup was a success or not.

You can add comments to your backups to keep track of why you made the backup.

Backups can be compressed so they take less space