-#!/bin/sh
+#!/bin/bash
# backup.sh
#
# Backup up Unix-like computers
# mind when hacking:
#
# KISS. And by that I mean really simple. Only regular Unix commands, please
-# (but GNU extensions are used).
+# (but GNU extensions are used and moreutils has to be installed).
#
# Because of the way we run this script from cron, informational logging goes
# to stderr and warnings and errors to stdout. This way, we get mail whenever
# stuff fails, and other output is redirected to the log file.
#
-# The computers are backed up in parallell (but the filesystems on each
+# The computers are backed up in parallel (but the filesystems on each
# computer in serial). This is implemented highly simplistic, with forking
# subshells. The script has no concept about threads, and stuff might go wrong,
# which usually requires manual cleanups.