typos, spelling

[pve-docs.git] / vzdump.adoc

diff --git a/vzdump.adoc b/vzdump.adoc
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--- a/vzdump.adoc
+++ b/vzdump.adoc
@@ -54,7 +54,10 @@ and 'guest-fsfreeze-thaw' to improve consistency.
 
 A technical overview of the Proxmox VE live backup for QemuServer can
 be found online
-https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-qemu-kvm.git;a=blob;f=backup.txt[here],
+https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-qemu-kvm.git;a=blob;f=backup.txt[here].
+
+NOTE: Qemu backup provides snapshots on any storage type. It does
+not require that the underlying storage supports snapshots.
 
 
 .Backup `mode` for Containers:
@@ -111,20 +114,29 @@ For details see the corresponding manual pages.
 Configuration
 -------------
 
-Global configuration is stored in '/etc/vzdump.conf'.
-
- tmpdir: DIR
- dumpdir: DIR
- storage: STORAGE_ID
- mode: snapshot|suspend|stop
- bwlimit: KBPS
- ionize: PRI
- lockwait: MINUTES
- stopwait: MINUTES
- size: MB
- maxfiles: N
- script: FILENAME
- exclude-path: PATHLIST
+Global configuration is stored in '/etc/vzdump.conf'. The file uses a
+simple colon separated key/value format. Each line has the following
+format:
+
+ OPTION: value
+
+Blank lines in the file are ignored, and lines starting with a '#'
+character are treated as comments and are also ignored. Values from
+this file are used as default, and can be overwritten on the command
+line.
+
+We currently support the following options:
+
+include::vzdump.conf.5-opts.adoc[]
+
+
+.Example 'vzdump.conf' Configuration
+----
+tmpdir: /mnt/fast_local_disk
+storage: my_backup_storage
+mode: snapshot
+bwlimit: 10000
+----
 
 Hook Scripts
 ------------
@@ -152,14 +164,14 @@ Or you can manually specify exclude paths, for example:
 (only excludes tmp directories)
 
 Configuration files are also stored inside the backup archive
-(`/etc/vzdump/`), and will be correctly restored.
+(in `./etc/vzdump/`) and will be correctly restored.
 
 Examples
 --------
 
 Simply dump guest 777 - no snapshot, just archive the guest private area and
 configuration files to the default dump directory (usually
-'/var/liv//vz/dump/').
+'/var/lib/vz/dump/').
 
  # vzdump 777