From 8e4bb2611daa64720762a9d300b729b846103672 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Fabian=20Gr=C3=BCnbichler?= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:27:00 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] sentence structure, wording --- pve-faq.adoc | 2 +- pve-installation.adoc | 2 +- vzdump.adoc | 17 ++++++++++------- 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/pve-faq.adoc b/pve-faq.adoc index dd8b795..4af846b 100644 --- a/pve-faq.adoc +++ b/pve-faq.adoc @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ What is a container, CT, VE, Virtual Private Server, VPS?:: Operating-system-level virtualization is a server-virtualization method where the kernel of an operating system allows for multiple isolated user-space instances, instead of just one. We call such -instances containers. As containers share the Kernel they are +instances containers. As containers use the host's kernel they are limited to Linux guests. What is a QEMU/KVM guest (or VM)?:: diff --git a/pve-installation.adoc b/pve-installation.adoc index ed4e73e..abf76e9 100644 --- a/pve-installation.adoc +++ b/pve-installation.adoc @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ functional and error free. You normally select *Install Proxmox VE* to start the installation. After that you get prompted to select the target hard disk(s). The -`Options` button aside lets you select the target file system, and +`Options` button lets you select the target file system, which defaults to `ext4`. The installer uses LVM if you select 'ext3', 'ext4' or 'xfs' as file system, and offers additional option to restrict LVM space (see <>) diff --git a/vzdump.adoc b/vzdump.adoc index 4f0d271..5440ae8 100644 --- a/vzdump.adoc +++ b/vzdump.adoc @@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ not require that the underlying storage supports snapshots. `stop` mode:: -Stop the guest during backup. This results in a very long downtime. +Stop the container for the duration of the backup. This potentially results in +a very long downtime. `suspend` mode:: @@ -77,8 +78,8 @@ to hold the container copy. When the container is on a local filesystem and the target storage of the backup is an NFS server, you should set `--tmpdir` to reside on a local filesystem too, as this will result in a many fold performance improvement. -Use of a local `tmpdir` is also required if you want to backup in `suspend` -mode a local container using ACLs to an NFS server. +Use of a local `tmpdir` is also required if you want to backup a local container +using ACLs in suspend mode if the backup storage is an NFS server. `snapshot` mode:: @@ -90,7 +91,7 @@ snapshot content will be archived in a tar file. Backup File Names ----------------- -Newer versions of vzdump encode the virtual machine type and the +Newer versions of vzdump encode the guest type and the backup time into the filename, for example vzdump-lxc-105-2009_10_09-11_04_43.tar @@ -149,15 +150,17 @@ directory ('vzdump-hook-script.pl'). File Exclusions --------------- -First, this option is only available for container backups. 'vzdump' -skips the following files with option `--stdexcludes` +NOTE: this option is only available for container backups. + +'vzdump' skips the following files by default (disable with the option +`--stdexcludes 0`) /var/log/?* /tmp/?* /var/tmp/?* /var/run/?*pid -Or you can manually specify exclude paths, for example: +You can also manually specify (additional) exclude paths, for example: # vzdump 777 --exclude-path /tmp/ --exclude-path '/var/foo*' -- 2.39.2