Fix doc typos

[software/bacap.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
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@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ configuration file)::
 
        mkdir -p $CONFIG_PATH
 
-The create a directory for each host you want to backup there, the directory
+Then create a directory for each host you want to backup there, the directory
 name should be the name of the host (as you would use to connect to it using
 ssh_). For now let's say we will only backup ``localhost``::
 
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ line for each path to backup in that host. Let's say we want to backup only
 ``/etc`` and ``/home``::
 
        echo /etc > $CONFIG_PATH/$LOCALHOST/paths
-       echo /home > $CONFIG_PATH/$LOCALHOST/paths
+       echo /home >> $CONFIG_PATH/$LOCALHOST/paths
 
 But sometimes there are things there that you don't want to backup, in that
 case you can create a file named ``excludes`` too, and write which paths you
@@ -120,6 +120,10 @@ backup rata's home::
 
        echo /home/rata/ > $CONFIG_PATH/$LOCALHOST/excludes
 
+Also, if you don't want to exclude files matching some pattern, you can create
+a file named ``includes`` with the patterns you want to include (you can use
+anything supported by the ``--include-from`` rsync_ option)
+
 That's pretty much it. If you want to add other hosts, just create the host
 directory and the needed host configuration files.
 
@@ -127,7 +131,7 @@ You may want to automate it using *cron*. I will not include a *cron* tutorial
 here, but if you are completely lost, you can add this line to ``/etc/crontab``
 to make a daily backup at 6:30::
 
-       25 6 * * * root /path/to/bacap
+       30 6 * * * root /path/to/bacap
 
 If you are a Debian_ user, you can also simply install the script in
 ``/etc/cron.daily`` (or make a symlink or something similar) and you are set.
@@ -152,6 +156,10 @@ for any host, it skips that host.
 A symbolic link is created at the end of the backup, with the name
 ``$BACKUP_PATH/$host/current``, and pointing to the newly created directory.
 
+Also, to see what have actually changed between two backups you can run rsync
+with your usual flags plus "-nv --delete". For example if you just use "-a", to
+see the differences between lolaus/2010-07-11 and lolaus/2010-07-12 you can run::
+        rsync -nav --delete lolaus/2010-07-11/ lolaus/2010-07-12/
 
 
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