places (the paths can probably be configured/hacked, but this is
where they are on my system and on chiark):
-etc.tgz : /etc/backup/
+etc.tgz : /etc/chiark-backup/
lib.tgz : /usr/local/lib/backup/
-var.tgz : /var/local/backup/
+var.tgz : /var/lib/chiark-backup/
NOTE: these versions are not those used on chiark; they
are somewhat modified by me (couple of extra features and
You'll also need to recompile readbuffer and writebuffer unless
you're using SPARClinux :->
-Contents of /etc/backup/:
+Contents of /etc/chiark-backup/:
warnings.* : files defining how many warnings you get as the
system is brought down to do backups. The defaults are fine.
settings.pl : generic config file: in particular, the name of