From 57518cf0d2960fa5ebe7b882a7cd5e6326ee72f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rajesh Joseph Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 11:01:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] shadow_copy2: update man pages for the newly introduced options shadow:snapprefix and shadow:delimiter are the two newly added options in shadow copy. Update man pages explaining the two options. Signed-off-by: Rajesh Joseph Reviewed-by: Uri Simchoni Reviewed-by: Michael Adam --- docs-xml/manpages/vfs_shadow_copy2.8.xml | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs-xml/manpages/vfs_shadow_copy2.8.xml b/docs-xml/manpages/vfs_shadow_copy2.8.xml index fbc06514538..6097511b631 100644 --- a/docs-xml/manpages/vfs_shadow_copy2.8.xml +++ b/docs-xml/manpages/vfs_shadow_copy2.8.xml @@ -406,7 +406,41 @@ - + + shadow:snapprefix + + + + With growing number of snapshots file-systems need some mechanism + to differentiate one set of snapshots from other, e.g. monthly, weekly, + manual, special events, etc. Therefore these file-systems provide different + ways to tag snapshots, e.g. provide a configurable way to name snapshots, + which is not just based on time. With only shadow:format + it is very difficult to filter these snapshots. With this optional parameter, + one can specify a variable prefix component for names of the snapshot + directories in the file-system. If this parameter is set, together with the + shadow:format and shadow:delimiter + parameters it determines the possible names of snapshot + directories in the file-system. The option only supports Basic + Regular Expression (BRE). + + + + + + shadow:delimiter + + + + This optional parameter is used as a delimiter between + shadow:snapprefix and shadow:format. + This parameter is used only when shadow:snapprefix + is set. + + Default: shadow:delimiter = "_GMT" + + + -- 2.11.4.GIT