[pve-devel] [PATCH docs] vzdump: fleecing: rephrase manual vzdump example

Aaron Lauterer a.lauterer at proxmox.com
Thu Jul 11 13:30:19 CEST 2024



On  2024-07-11  13:23, Fiona Ebner wrote:
> Am 11.07.24 um 13:11 schrieb Aaron Lauterer:
>> Signed-off-by: Aaron Lauterer <a.lauterer at proxmox.com>
>> ---
>> @fiona please let me know if this works and doesn't introduce wrong
>> infos.
>> I think this way the sentence represents better what is happening, as
>> it is not enabling it, but running that particular backup with fleecing.
>>
>> I am also thinking of placing the actual command of this and the now
>> applied change detection mode into a code block instead of having them
>> inline.
>>
> 
> Fine by me :)
> 
>>   vzdump.adoc | 10 +++++-----
>>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/vzdump.adoc b/vzdump.adoc
>> index 415742e..10dff9e 100644
>> --- a/vzdump.adoc
>> +++ b/vzdump.adoc
>> @@ -149,11 +149,11 @@ With backup fleecing, such old data is cached in a fleecing image rather than
>>   sent directly to the backup target. This can help guest IO performance and even
>>   prevent hangs in certain scenarios, at the cost of requiring more storage space.
>>   
>> -Use e.g. `vzdump 123 --fleecing enabled=1,storage=local-lvm` to enable backup
>> -fleecing, with fleecing images created on the storage `local-lvm`. As always,
>> -you can set the option for specific backup jobs, or as a node-wide fallback via
>> -the xref:vzdump_configuration[configuration options]. In the UI, fleecing can be
>> -configured in the 'Advanced' tab when editing a backup job.
>> +To manually run a backup of guest `123` with fleecing images created on the
> 
> Fleecing is only supported for VMs, so I don't like the use of 'guest'
> here, let's use 'VM' instead.

good point, will change it to VM
> 
>> +storage `local-lvm`, run `vzdump 123 --fleecing enabled=1,storage=local-lvm`. As
> 
> The duplicate 'run' in the sentence can be fine, but maybe having the
> first 'run' be 'start' instead reads slightly nicer?

good catch :)

> 
>> +always, you can set the option for specific backup jobs, or as a node-wide
>> +fallback via the xref:vzdump_configuration[configuration options]. In the UI,
>> + fleecing can be configured in the 'Advanced' tab when editing a backup job.
>>   
>>   The fleecing storage should be a fast local storage, with thin provisioning and
>>   discard support. Examples are LVM-thin, RBD, ZFS with `sparse 1` in the storage




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