[lxc-devel] [lxd/master] Update documentation with backup compression

[johanehnberg on Github]

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From 8778a413e9b8d06c0c9784785de7c0717b0c1faa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Ehnberg <johan at ehnberg.net>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 16:59:10 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Update documentation with backup compression

Fixes #7456
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 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.