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This PR rewords ambiguous English phrases in br/br-compact-log-backup.md to produce more accurate machine translations to Japanese.

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The original English text contains the phrase "Base64-encoded storage", which machine translators (and human translators) interpret as "storage itself being Base64-encoded". This leads to unnatural Japanese translations like "Base64エンコードストレージ" (Base64-encoded storage), which is confusing because what is actually encoded is the storage URI/string, not the storage.

The root cause traces back to the Chinese source phrase "有了存储的 Base64" (the Base64 of the storage / the storage's Base64), which was translated to English as "Base64-encoded storage" — reversing the possessive relationship and changing the meaning.

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Before After Why
"matches the storage output" "should match the output" "storage output" is a confusing compound noun that MT renders literally as "storage出力"
"With the Base64-encoded storage, you can initiate the compaction..." "Once you have the Base64-encoded string from the previous step, you can start compaction..." Clarifies that the string (not the storage) was encoded; "initiate the compaction" is also overly formal
"the Base64-encoded storage string obtained earlier" "the Base64-encoded string obtained in the previous step" Same compound-noun ambiguity as above

These changes ensure machine translation produces natural Japanese: e.g., "Base64エンコードされた文字列" instead of the nonsensical "Base64エンコードストレージ".

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Source PR: pingcap/docs#23047
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Chinese documentation has been updated based on English documentation changes.

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