backup: add section for protection

Signed-off-by: Fabian Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
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Fabian Ebner 2021-11-16 15:44:28 +01:00 committed by Thomas Lamprecht
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@ -284,6 +284,19 @@ We recommend that you use a higher retention period than is minimally required
by your environment; you can always reduce it if you find it is unnecessarily
high, but you cannot recreate backups once they have been removed.
[[vzdump_protection]]
Backup Protection
-----------------
You can mark a backup as `protected` to prevent its removal. Attempting to
remove a protected backup via {pve}'s UI or API will fail. However, manual
removal of a backup file via CLI is still possible. Protected backups are
ignored by pruning and do not count towards the retention settings.
For filesystem-based storages, the protection is implemented via a sentinel file
`<backup-name>.protected`. For Proxmox Backup Server, it is handled on the
server side.
[[vzdump_restore]]
Restore
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