diff --git a/docs/usage/prune.rst.inc b/docs/usage/prune.rst.inc index e21a7002e..d97321f14 100644 --- a/docs/usage/prune.rst.inc +++ b/docs/usage/prune.rst.inc @@ -144,10 +144,11 @@ from different machines) in one shared repository, use one prune call per series. The ``--keep-within`` option takes an argument of the form "", -where char is "H", "d", "w", "m", "y". For example, ``--keep-within 2d`` means +where char is "y", "m", "w", "d", "H", "M", or "S" and represents years, months, +weeks, days, hours, minutes or seconds. For example, ``--keep-within 2d`` means to keep all archives that were created within the past 48 hours. -"1m" is taken to mean "31d". The archives kept with this option do not -count towards the totals specified by any other options. +"1m" is taken to mean "31d" and "1y" represents "365d". The archives kept with +this option do not count towards the totals specified by any other options. A good procedure is to thin out more and more the older your backups get. As an example, ``--keep-daily 7`` means to keep the latest backup on each day, @@ -173,4 +174,4 @@ backup archive in the same second). You can influence how the ``--list`` output is formatted by using the ``--short`` option (less wide output) or by giving a custom format using ``--format`` (see -the ``borg repo-list`` description for more details about the format string). \ No newline at end of file +the ``borg repo-list`` description for more details about the format string).