I highly recommend using GhettoVCB for this task. I usually back up my entire VMs every 6 months (using GhettoVCB), and run BackupPC to backup the data files on the filesystems always. I would not recommend backing up the VMs using rsync directly. GhettoVCB can output sparse files and split the backup VMDK into 2GB chunks. The nice thing is if you have a 30 GB VM, it will just use up the actual amount of used disk space... I have some 30 GB VMs that take only 5 min to backup!
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