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                <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>
        
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                        <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>