diff --git a/doc/040_backup.rst b/doc/040_backup.rst
index ae834491e..550957eeb 100644
--- a/doc/040_backup.rst
+++ b/doc/040_backup.rst
@@ -381,8 +381,8 @@ contains one *pattern* per line. The file must be encoded as UTF-8, or UTF-16
 with a byte-order mark. Leading and trailing whitespace is removed from the
 patterns. Empty lines and lines starting with a ``#`` are ignored and each
 pattern is expanded when read, such that special characters in it are expanded
-using the Go function `filepath.Glob <https://pkg.go.dev/path/filepath#Glob>`__
-- please see its documentation for the syntax you can use in the patterns.
+according to the syntax described in the documentation of the Go function
+`filepath.Match <https://pkg.go.dev/path/filepath#Match>`__.
 
 The argument passed to ``--files-from-verbatim`` must be the name of a text file
 that contains one *path* per line, e.g. as generated by GNU ``find`` with the