proxmox-backup/docs/glossary.rst
Dylan Whyte 2bc1250c28 docs: language fixup: faq and appendix
minor formatting and language fixes to the faq section and the appendix

Signed-off-by: Dylan Whyte <d.whyte@proxmox.com>
2021-11-02 07:12:07 +01:00

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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's 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. This can eliminate many classes of bugs
at compile-time.
`Sphinx`_
Is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and nicely formatted
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.