X-Git-Url: https://git.sthu.org/?p=sitarba.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=shbackup.docbook;h=36741d98c4fb266bddd24fcc310830d971f9ba9d;hp=b3bc0a010a90fc0a1574db2b4fcf5bc2e4d3c38b;hb=52109733736bd4bc080330f10f33c47cf7a81c4d;hpb=1279c0a182af8138af63506425692e36450481eb diff --git a/shbackup.docbook b/shbackup.docbook index b3bc0a0..36741d9 100644 --- a/shbackup.docbook +++ b/shbackup.docbook @@ -38,14 +38,16 @@ shbackup 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. shbackup 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. + @@ -104,8 +106,9 @@ 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.