The following pull request was submitted through Github. It can be accessed and reviewed at: https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/7462
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From 8778a413e9b8d06c0c9784785de7c0717b0c1faa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Ehnberg <jo...@ehnberg.net> Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 16:59:10 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Update documentation with backup compression Fixes #7456 --- doc/backup.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/backup.md b/doc/backup.md index 105d16a0c8..46cb038a27 100644 --- a/doc/backup.md +++ b/doc/backup.md @@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ Those tarballs will include all snapshots by default and an "optimized" tarball can be obtained if you know that you'll be restoring on a LXD server using the same storage pool backend. +You can use any compressor installed on the server using the `--compression` +flag. There is no validation on the LXD side, any command that is available +to LXD and supports `-c` for stdout should work. + Those tarballs can be saved any way you want on any filesystem you want and can be imported back into LXD using the `lxc import` command.
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