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) ...@@ -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 again. This results in a minimal downtime, but needs additional space
to hold the VM copy. to hold the VM copy.
For QemuServer, this mode work like C<stop> mode, but uses For QemuServer, this mode will suspend the VM, start
suspend/resume instead of stop/start. a live backup, and resume the VM.
=item C<snapshot> mode =item C<snapshot> mode
This mode uses LVM2 snapshots. There is no downtime, but snapshot mode For containers, this mode uses the snapshotting facilities of the underlying
needs LVM2 and some free space on the corresponding volume group to storage. A snapshot will be made of the container volume, and the snapshot content
create the LVM snapshot. 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 =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 =head1 BACKUP FILE NAMES
Newer version of vzdump encodes the virtual machine type and the Newer version of vzdump encodes the virtual machine type and the
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