From 95af905b7de22c257cefb7b270400c74adfc4690 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Lambert Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 10:07:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] exclude disks doc --- docs/delta_backups.md | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/delta_backups.md b/docs/delta_backups.md index 803fac532..b3a70c2a5 100644 --- a/docs/delta_backups.md +++ b/docs/delta_backups.md @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ You can imagine to make your first initial full backup during a weekend, and the So, if you want to rollback your VM to a previous state, the cost is only one snapshot on your SR (far less than the [rolling snapshot](rolling_snapshot.md) mechanism). -Even if you lost your whole SR or VM, you can use a Full backup to restore it completely, then apply any existing delta on top! +Even if you lost your whole SR or VM, XOA will restore your VM entirely and automatically, at any date of backup. You can even imagine to use this to backup more often! Because delta will be smaller, and will be **always delta's**. @@ -40,3 +40,9 @@ This way we can go "forward" and remove this oldest VHD after the merge: ## Create Delta backup Just go inside your "Backup" view, and select Delta Backup. Then, it's like a normal backup. + +## Exclude disks + +During a delta backup job, you can avoid saving all disks of the VM. To do that, it's trivial: just edit the VM disk name and add `[NOBAK]` before the current name, eg: `data-disk` will become `[NOBAK] data-disk` (with a space or not after, doesn't matter). + +For every following backup, this disk will be now ignored.