Merge "Update volume backups guide"

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@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ or an incremental backup depending on the timestamp.
The first backup of a volume has to be a full backup. Attempting to do
an incremental backup without any existing backups will fail.
There is an ``is_incremental`` flag that indicates whether a backup is
incremental when showing details on the backup.
Another flag, ``has_dependent_backups``, returned when showing backup
details, will indicate whether the backup has dependent backups.
If it is true, attempting to delete this backup will fail.
A new configure option ``backup_swift_block_size`` is introduced into
:file:`cinder.conf` for the default Swift backup driver. This is the size in