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 You need hardware:
-x a computer running a free unix clone.
-x as much disc as you can aford.
+x a computer running a free UNIX clone.
+x as much disk space as you can afford.
   
-You need software:
-x ssh (or perhaps openssh)
+You need software on clients and server:
+x ssh/openssh
 x GNU bash
 x GNU tar 
 x GNU shellutils
+x GNU moreutils
+x git (backup machine only)
 
 How to prepare your computer:
-x mount your huge partition (we use /backup)
+x mount your huge partition (we use /backup).
 x make it possible for ssh to log in from this computer
   to your other computers as root without a password. scary.
 x put this software in a directory (we use /home/backup/)
+x put the name of your computers in /home/backup/conf/computers.unix
+x put the global config file in /home/backup/conf/backup.config,
+  adjust to taste
+x the fifth field (of the partitions you want to back up) in
+  /etc/fstab on your clients should be >0 
 
 Crontab entry:
 We use cron to start the script every night. Here is the entry we use:
-2 2 * * * /home/backup/backup.sh < /dev/null >> `/home/backup/logfilename.sh` 2>&1
+02 4 * * * /home/backup/backup-cron.sh
+
+License: This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License,
+version 2, or (at your option) any later version of the license.
+See the COPYING file.