could we have a short paragraph on where to set these options? Similar
to how it is done in the fleecing section?
a few very nitpicky comments inline:
On 2024-07-10 16:41, Christian Ebner wrote:
Add a concise section about what PBS change detection mode is and
what it affects, including a table with a description of the modes.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ebner <c.eb...@proxmox.com>
---
vzdump.adoc | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
diff --git a/vzdump.adoc b/vzdump.adoc
index 9b1cb61..4607e40 100644
--- a/vzdump.adoc
+++ b/vzdump.adoc
@@ -175,6 +175,30 @@ fleecing image up-front. On a thinly provisioned storage,
the fleecing image can
grow to the same size as the original image only if the guest re-writes a
whole
disk while the backup is busy with another disk.
+CT Change Detection Mode
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Setting the change detection mode defines the encoding format for the pxar
+archives and how changed and unchanged files are handled for container backups
s/how changed and unchanged/how changed, and unchanged/
comma before the and
+with Proxmox Backup Server as target.
s/as target/as the target/
+
+Backups of VMs or to other storage backends are not affected by this setting.
+
+There are 3 change detection modes available:
+
+[width="100%",cols="<m,4d",options="header"]
+|===============================================================================
+| Mode | Description
+| Default | Read and encode all files into a single archive, using the pxar
+format version 1.
+| Data | (EXPERIMENTAL): Read and encode all files, but split data and
+metadata into separate streams, using the pxar format version 2.
+| Metadata | (EXPERIMENTAL): Split streams and use archive format version 2
like
+`Data`, but use metadata archive of previous snapshot (if one exists) to detect
s/use metadata/use the metadata/
s/of previous/of the previous/
+unchanged files, and reuse their data chunks without reading file contents from
+disk, whenever possible.
+|===============================================================================
+
Backup File Names
-----------------
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