[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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