From 88d42c3ac1b8c8c6ffacde00b32e0cd709b82d51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aliaksandr Valialkin Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:20:47 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] app/vmbackup/README.md: sync with docs/vmbackup.md after e706fb568604e04fdeaac8274eff1a49e37706f2 --- app/vmbackup/README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/app/vmbackup/README.md b/app/vmbackup/README.md index b872ee10c3..1d59291d0e 100644 --- a/app/vmbackup/README.md +++ b/app/vmbackup/README.md @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ The backup algorithm is the following: These are usually the biggest and the oldest files, which are shared between backups. 5. Upload the remaining files from step 3 from `-snapshotName` to `-dst`. -The algorithm splits source files into 100 MB chunks in the backup. Each chunk stored as a separate file in the backup. +The algorithm splits source files into 1 GiB chunks in the backup. Each chunk stored as a separate file in the backup. Such splitting minimizes the amounts of data to re-transfer after temporary errors. `vmbackup` relies on [instant snapshot](https://medium.com/@valyala/how-victoriametrics-makes-instant-snapshots-for-multi-terabyte-time-series-data-e1f3fb0e0282) properties: