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WinSMB volume driver doc: Add Volume backup support

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This update is based on the Windows SMB: Volume Backup support
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Lucian Petrut: Change ID: I8769a135974240fdf7cebd4b6d74aaa439ba1f27

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Hagen Finley 2018-04-12 15:37:19 -07:00
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@ -69,6 +69,15 @@ consumer side (e.g. Hyper-V).
cinder create $size --volume-type $volume_type_id
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The ``Cinder Backup Service`` can be run on Windows. This driver stores
the volumes using vhdx images stored on SMB shares which can be attached
in order to retrieve the volume data and send it to the backup service.
Prerequisites:
* All physical disks must be in byte mode
* rb+ must be used when writing backups to disk
Clustering support
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Active-Active Cinder clustering is currently experimental and should not be