X-Git-Url: https://git.sthu.org/?p=sitarba.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=shbackup.1;h=e2b5fc60b3c3771d3d803a5112e92a67e3a45b41;hp=28efa25f68c435eb5b3c5ca0b67ab174c1218deb;hb=9f92be0e00ba3ee90bfbb4989f4befa01066a014;hpb=2cb9c718633a922bcee6d3dbb27d448c38d6a7d6 diff --git a/shbackup.1 b/shbackup.1 index 28efa25..e2b5fc6 100644 --- a/shbackup.1 +++ b/shbackup.1 @@ -22,11 +22,12 @@ shbackup \- a simple backup solution .SH DESCRIPTION \fBshbackup\fR 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. \fBshbackup\fR 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. .SH COMMANDS @@ -50,8 +51,9 @@ Use given configuration file instead of .TP \*(T<\fB\-e, \-\-epoch EPOCH\fR\*(T> Do not determine epoch automatically, but -use EPOCH, which can be year, month, -week, day, hour, sporadic. +use EPOCH, which can be sporadic or one +of the epochs defined in the +configuration file. .TP \*(T<\fB\-m, \-\-mode MODE\fR\*(T> Instead of configured mode use MODE,