proxmox-backup/docs/glossary.rst
Dominik Csapak 1eff9a1e89 docs: add section for calendar events
and move the info defined in 'Schedules' there,
the explanation of calendar events is inspired by the systemd.time
manpage and the pve docs (especially the examples are mostly
copied/adapted from there)

Signed-off-by: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com>
2020-09-11 12:17:42 +02:00

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Glossary
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.. glossary::
`Virtual machine`_
A virtual machine is a program that can execute an entire
operating system inside an emulated hardware environment.
`Container`_
A container is an isolated user space. Programs run directly on
the host's kernel, but with limited access to the host resources.
Datastore
A place to store backups. A directory which contains the backup data.
The current implementation is file-system based.
`Rust`_
Rust is a new, fast and memory-efficient system programming
language. It has no runtime or garbage collector. Rusts rich type
system and ownership model guarantee memory-safety and
thread-safety. I can eliminate many classes of bugs
at compile-time.
`Sphinx`_
Is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and
beautiful documentation. It was originally created for the
documentation of the Python programming language. It has excellent facilities for the
documentation of software projects in a range of languages.
`reStructuredText`_
Is an easy-to-read, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext
markup syntax and parser system.
`FUSE`
Filesystem in Userspace (`FUSE <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace>`_)
defines an interface which makes it possible to implement a filesystem in
userspace as opposed to implementing it in the kernel. The fuse
kernel driver handles filesystem requests and sends them to a
userspace application.
Remote
A remote Proxmox Backup Server installation and credentials for a user on it.
You can pull datastores from a remote to a local datastore in order to
have redundant backups.