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From: Dylan Whyte <d.whyte@proxmox.com>
To: pbs-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [pbs-devel] [PATCH docs 1/2] introduction: history: minor rewording and fixup
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 16:19:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201014141914.1902-1-d.whyte@proxmox.com> (raw)

Some minor spelling and grammar fixes.
Rewording of some sentences.

Signed-off-by: Dylan Whyte <d.whyte@proxmox.com>
---
 docs/introduction.rst | 35 +++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/introduction.rst b/docs/introduction.rst
index bf42f2ad..e28331a3 100644
--- a/docs/introduction.rst
+++ b/docs/introduction.rst
@@ -179,29 +179,28 @@ along with this program.  If not, see AGPL3_.
 History
 -------
 
-Backup is, and always was, as central aspect of IT administration.
-The need to recover from data loss is fundamental and increases with
+Backup is, and always has been, a central aspect of IT administration.
+The need to recover from data loss is fundamental and only increases with
 virtualization.
 
-Not surprisingly, we shipped a backup tool with Proxmox VE from the
-beginning. The tool is called ``vzdump`` and is able to make
+For this reason, we've been shipping a backup tool with Proxmox VE, from the
+beginning. This tool is called ``vzdump`` and is able to make
 consistent snapshots of running LXC containers and KVM virtual
 machines.
 
-But ``vzdump`` only allowed for full backups. While this is perfect
+However, ``vzdump`` only allows for full backups. While this is fine
 for small backups, it becomes a burden for users with large VMs. Both
-backup time and space usage was too large for this case, specially
-when Users want to keep many backups of the same VMs. We need
-deduplication and incremental backups to solve those problems.
+backup duration and storage usage are too high for this case, especially
+for users who want to keep many backups of the same VMs. To solve these
+problems, we needed to offer deduplication and incremental backups.
 
-Back in October 2018 development started. We had been looking into
+Back in October 2018, development started. We investigated
 several technologies and frameworks and finally decided to use
-:term:`Rust` as implementation language to provide high speed and
-memory efficiency. The 2018-edition of Rust seemed to be promising and
-useful for our requirements.
-
-In July 2020 we released the first beta version of Proxmox Backup
-Server, followed by a first stable version in November 2020. With the
-support of incremental, fully deduplicated backups, Proxmox Backup
-significantly reduces the network load and saves valuable storage
-space.
+:term:`Rust` as the implementation language, in order to provide high speed and
+memory efficiency. The 2018-edition of Rust seemed promising for our
+requirements.
+
+In July 2020, we released the first beta version of Proxmox Backup
+Server, followed by the first stable version in November 2020. With support for
+incremental, fully deduplicated backups, Proxmox Backup significantly reduces
+network load and saves valuable storage space.
-- 
2.20.1





             reply	other threads:[~2020-10-14 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-14 14:19 Dylan Whyte [this message]
2020-10-14 14:19 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH docs 2/2] Introduction: reword & link to encryption section Dylan Whyte
2020-10-15  4:32   ` Dietmar Maurer
2020-10-15  4:29 ` [pbs-devel] applied: [PATCH docs 1/2] introduction: history: minor rewording and fixup Dietmar Maurer

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