@@ -4,16 +4,16 @@ Examples
 ~~~~~~~~
 ::
 
-    # create an archive, then keep a copy of it under a stable name:
-    $ borg create backup-2016-02-15 ~
-    $ borg copy backup-2016-02-15 known-good
+    # create an archive, then copy it to an archive with a different name:
+    $ borg create home ~
+    $ borg copy home known-good
     $ borg repo-list
-    d7b79fd3  Sat, 2026-08-29 14:39:27 +0200  backup-2016-02-15              tw          MacBook-Pro
+    d7b79fd3  Sat, 2026-08-29 14:39:27 +0200  home                         tw          MacBook-Pro
     f81040e3  Sat, 2026-08-29 14:39:27 +0200  known-good                   tw          MacBook-Pro
 
     # the copy is an independent archive:
     # after deleting (and compacting away) the original, the copy is still complete.
-    $ borg delete backup-2016-02-15
+    $ borg delete home
     $ borg compact
     $ borg extract known-good
 
 
@@ -73,9 +73,6 @@ Examples
     # Only compress compressible data with lzma,N (N = 0..9)
     $ borg create --compression auto,lzma,N arch ~
 
-    # Use the short hostname and username as the archive name
-    $ borg create '{hostname}-{user}' ~
-
     # Back up relative paths by moving into the correct directory first
     $ cd /home/user/Documents
     # The root directory of the archive will be "projectA"
 
@@ -12,12 +12,12 @@ Examples
     # Delete a specific backup archive using its unique archive ID prefix
     $ borg delete aid:d34db33f
 
-    # Delete all archives whose names begin with the machine's hostname followed by "-"
-    $ borg delete -a 'sh:{hostname}-*'
+    # Delete all archives created on this machine
+    $ borg delete -a 'host:{hostname}'
 
-    # Delete all archives whose names contain "-2012-"
-    $ borg delete -a 'sh:*-2012-*'
+    # Delete all archives created in 2012
+    $ borg delete -a 'date:2012'
 
     # See what would be deleted if delete was run without --dry-run
-    $ borg delete --list --dry-run -a 'sh:*-May-*'
+    $ borg delete --list --dry-run -a 'date:2012-05'
 
@@ -4,15 +4,15 @@ Examples
 ~~~~~~~~
 ::
 
-    $ borg list root-2016-02-15
+    $ borg list root
     drwxr-xr-x root   root          0 Mon, 2016-02-15 17:44:27 +0100 .
     drwxrwxr-x root   root          0 Mon, 2016-02-15 19:04:49 +0100 bin
     -rwxr-xr-x root   root    1029624 Thu, 2014-11-13 00:08:51 +0100 bin/bash
     lrwxrwxrwx root   root          6 Fri, 2015-03-27 20:24:26 +0100 bin/bzcmp -> bzdiff
     -rwxr-xr-x root   root       2140 Fri, 2015-03-27 20:24:22 +0100 bin/bzdiff
     ...
 
-    $ borg list root-2016-02-15 --pattern "- bin/ba*"
+    $ borg list root --pattern "- bin/ba*"
     drwxr-xr-x root   root          0 Mon, 2016-02-15 17:44:27 +0100 .
     drwxrwxr-x root   root          0 Mon, 2016-02-15 19:04:49 +0100 bin
     lrwxrwxrwx root   root          6 Fri, 2015-03-27 20:24:26 +0100 bin/bzcmp -> bzdiff
 
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ borgfs
     $ echo '/mnt/backup /tmp/myrepo fuse.borgfs defaults,noauto 0 0' >> /etc/fstab
     $ mount /tmp/myrepo
     $ ls /tmp/myrepo
-    root-2016-02-01 root-2016-02-15
+    root-1f7b3c2a  root-9e4d0b58
 
 .. Note::
 
 
@@ -36,12 +36,11 @@ set the reference timestamp for interval calculation.
     # Do a dry-run without actually deleting anything.
     $ borg prune -v --list --dry-run --keep-daily=7 --keep-weekly=4
 
-    # Similar to the above, but only apply to the archive series named '{hostname}':
-    $ borg prune -v --list --keep-daily=7 --keep-weekly=4 '{hostname}'
+    # Similar to the above, but only apply to the archive series named 'backup-sys-home':
+    $ borg prune -v --list --keep-daily=7 --keep-weekly=4 backup-sys-home
 
-    # Similar to the above, but apply to archive names starting with the hostname
-    # of the machine followed by a '-' character:
-    $ borg prune -v --list --keep-daily=7 --keep-weekly=4 -a 'sh:{hostname}-*'
+    # Similar to the above, but only apply to archives created on this machine:
+    $ borg prune -v --list --keep-daily=7 --keep-weekly=4 -a 'host:{hostname}'
 
     # Keep 7 end of day, 4 additional end of week archives,
     # and an end of month archive for every month:
 
@@ -7,25 +7,25 @@ Examples
 ::
 
     # Export as an uncompressed tar archive
-    $ borg export-tar Monday Monday.tar
+    $ borg export-tar docs docs.tar
 
     # Import an uncompressed tar archive
-    $ borg import-tar Monday Monday.tar
+    $ borg import-tar docs docs.tar
 
     # Exclude some file types and compress using gzip
-    $ borg export-tar Monday Monday.tar.gz --exclude '*.so'
+    $ borg export-tar docs docs.tar.gz --exclude '*.so'
 
     # Use a higher compression level with gzip
-    $ borg export-tar --tar-filter="gzip -9" Monday Monday.tar.gz
+    $ borg export-tar --tar-filter="gzip -9" docs docs.tar.gz
 
     # Copy an archive from repoA to repoB
     $ borg -r repoA export-tar --tar-format=BORG archive - | borg -r repoB import-tar archive -
 
     # Export a tar, but instead of storing it on disk, upload it to a remote site using curl
-    $ borg export-tar Monday - | curl --data-binary @- https://somewhere/to/POST
+    $ borg export-tar docs - | curl --data-binary @- https://somewhere/to/POST
 
     # Remote extraction via 'tarpipe'
-    $ borg export-tar Monday - | ssh somewhere "cd extracted; tar x"
+    $ borg export-tar docs - | ssh somewhere "cd extracted; tar x"
 
     # Export sparse files (e.g. disk images) as sparse tar members (GNU sparse format 1.0)
     $ borg export-tar --sparse disk-images disk-images.tar
 
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 The following argument types have intelligent, context-aware completion:
 
 1. Archive names/IDs (archivename_validator):
-   - Completes archive names by default (e.g., "my-backup-2024")
+   - Completes archive names by default (e.g., "my-backup")
    - Completes archive IDs when prefixed with "aid:" (e.g., "aid:12345678")
    - In zsh and fish, shows archive metadata (name, timestamp, user@host) as descriptions
      (tcsh has no completion descriptions)