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Add note on RBD volume snapshots when snapshot.backup.to.secondary is false
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to the secondary storage. If the snapshot is being taken in a file-based storage (NFS, SharedMountPoint, Local),
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it will be copied directly to its final storage location, according to the configuration.
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.. note::
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If ``snapshot.backup.to.secondary`` is false and the volume is on RBD (Ceph) primary storage, the Volume
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Snapshots are kept in the storage layer, as RBD snapshots of the volume's image. Deleting such a volume
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will therefore first delete all of its Volume Snapshots, as an RBD image cannot be removed while it still
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has snapshots.
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Since 4.21.0.0, ACS supports incremental snapshots for the KVM hypervisor when using file-based storage (NFS, SharedMountPoint, Local),
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to enable incremental snapshots the ``kvm.incremental.snapshot`` configuration must be enabled. Furthermore, in order to take incremental snapshots
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the KVM host must have at least Libvirt version 7.6.0+ and qemu version 6.1+. The size of the snapshot chains

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