Commit c197f23e authored by Emmanuel Kasper's avatar Emmanuel Kasper Committed by Dietmar Maurer

Update vzdump man page for 4.0 (LXC containers , KVM live backup)

parent 2fc4c454
......@@ -51,17 +51,23 @@ rsync copies changed files. After that, the VM is started (resume)
again. This results in a minimal downtime, but needs additional space
to hold the VM copy.
For QemuServer, this mode work like C<stop> mode, but uses
suspend/resume instead of stop/start.
For QemuServer, this mode will suspend the VM, start
a live backup, and resume the VM.
=item C<snapshot> mode
This mode uses LVM2 snapshots. There is no downtime, but snapshot mode
needs LVM2 and some free space on the corresponding volume group to
create the LVM snapshot.
For containers, this mode uses the snapshotting facilities of the underlying
storage. A snapshot will be made of the container volume, and the snapshot content
will be archived in a tar file.
For QemuServer, this mode will do a live backup similar to the C<snaphost> mode, but without
suspending/resuming the VM.
=back
A technical overview of the Proxmox VE live backup for QemuServer can be found online at:
https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-qemu-kvm.git;a=blob;f=backup.txt
=head1 BACKUP FILE NAMES
Newer version of vzdump encodes the virtual machine type and the
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