[pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 2/2] docs: expand datastore documentation

[Stoiko Ivanov]

document retention settings and schedules per datastore with
some minimal examples.

Signed-off-by: Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov at proxmox.com>
---
 docs/administration-guide.rst | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/administration-guide.rst b/docs/administration-guide.rst
index 37a716c6..165633a7 100644
--- a/docs/administration-guide.rst
+++ b/docs/administration-guide.rst
@@ -146,7 +146,12 @@ Datastore Configuration
 
 You can configure multiple datastores. Minimum one datastore needs to be
 configured. The datastore is identified by a simple `name` and points to a
-directory on the filesystem.
+directory on the filesystem. Each datastore also has associated retention
+settings of how many backup snapshots for each interval of ``hourly``,
+``daily``, ``weekly``, ``monthly``, ``yearly`` as well as an time independent
+number of backups to keep in that store. :ref:`Pruning <pruning>` and
+:ref:`garbage collection <garbage-collection>` can also be configured to run
+periodically based on a configured :term:`schedule` per datastore.
 
 The following command creates a new datastore called ``store1`` on :file:`/backup/disk1/store1`
 
@@ -165,6 +170,30 @@ To list existing datastores run:
   │ store1 │ /backup/disk1/store1 │ This is my default storage. │
   └────────┴──────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
 
+You can change settings of a datastore, for example to set a prune and garbage
+collection schedule or retention settings using ``update`` subcommand and view
+a datastore with the ``show`` subcommand:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  # proxmox-backup-manager datastore update store1 --keep-last 7 --prune-schedule daily --gc-schedule 'Tue 04:27'
+  # proxmox-backup-manager datastore show store1
+  ┌────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
+  │ Name           │ Value                       │
+  ╞════════════════╪═════════════════════════════╡
+  │ name           │ store1                      │
+  ├────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
+  │ path           │ /backup/disk1/store1        │
+  ├────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
+  │ comment        │ This is my default storage. │
+  ├────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
+  │ gc-schedule    │ Tue 04:27                   │
+  ├────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
+  │ keep-last      │ 7                           │
+  ├────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
+  │ prune-schedule │ daily                       │
+  └────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
+
 Finally, it is possible to remove the datastore configuration:
 
 .. code-block:: console
@@ -822,6 +851,8 @@ To remove the ticket, issue a logout:
   # proxmox-backup-client logout
 
 
+.. _pruning:
+
 Pruning and Removing Backups
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
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