<para>
<command>shbackup</command> is a simple backup solution
which packs user-defined file sets with tar. Each
- backup belongs to an epoch, which can be year, month,
- week, day, hour or sporadic. The backup can be made
+ backup belongs to an epoch, which is 'sporadic' or one
+ of the user-defined epochs. Standard epochs are year,
+ month, week, day, or hour. The backup can be made
either full, differential or incremental.
<command>shbackup</command> takes care for pruning old
- backups. The user defines for each epoch the number of
+ backups. The user defines for every epoch the number of
backups to keep, except for 'sporadic'. Sporadic
backups need to be removed manually.
+
</para>
</refsect1>
<term><option>-e, --epoch EPOCH</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Do not determine epoch automatically, but
- use EPOCH, which can be year, month,
- week, day, hour, sporadic.</para>
+ use EPOCH, which can be sporadic or one
+ of the epochs defined in the
+ configuration file.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>