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+Short (and probably not entirely accurate) installation instructions:
+
+On the host where you want to keep the backups.
+
+1) Install the software with
+
+   perl Build.PL#
+   ./Build
+   ./Build install
+
+   (the ./Build test step should be skipped for now - it works only if
+   the DB has been initialized and when running as root)
+
+2) create a user simba_ca.
+
+3) create a mysql database, initialize it using schema.mysql and store
+   the dbi connection string, username and password in ~simba_ca/.dbi/simba
+
+4) create an SSH private key for simba_ca.
+
+5) create a large filesystem and mount it on /backup.
+
+For each host you want to backup:
+
+6) Install the software as in 1).
+
+7) create a user simba_da.
+
+8) Add the public key created in 4) to ~simba_da/.ssh/authorized_keys
+   (you may want to restrict access to the command /usr/local/bin/da)
+
+9) Test whether you can connect from simba_ca to simba_da:
+
+  ssh -i ~simba_ca/.ssh/id_rsa simba_da@target.host.example.
+
+10) create a config file /etc/simba/da.conf to exclude filesystems you 
+    don't want to backup:
+
+    ---
+    prune:
+      - /proc
+      - /sys
+      - /dev
+      - /backup
+
+Finally:
+
+11) Add the filesets you want to backup to the filesets table:
+
+    insert into filesets(host, dir) values('host1', '/');
+    insert into filesets(host, dir) values('host2', '/mydata');
+    
+12) copy the backup script to a convenient location, modify it if necessary,
+    and start it. If all goes well, add it to cron.