-# Name of temporary file to hold volume numbers. This needs to be accessible
-# by all the machines which have filesystems to be dumped.
-VOLNO_FILE=/home/gd2/dump/volnofile
-
-# Script to be run when it's time to insert a new tape in for the next
-# volume. Administrators may want to tailor this script for their site.
-# If this variable isn't set, tar will use some default behavior which is
-# probably defined in the manual.
-#DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT='rsh apple-gunkies /home/gd2/dump/dump-remind'
-
-# List of file systems to be dumped.
-# Actually, any directory may be used, but if it has subdirectories on
-# other file systems, they are not included.
-# The host name specifies which host to run tar on.
-# It should normally be the host that actually has the file system.
-# If GNU tar is not installed on that machine, then you can specify some
-# other host which can access the file system through NFS.
-# Although these are arranged one per line, that is not mandatory.
-# It does not work to use # for comments within the string.
-
-BACKUP_DIRS='
- albert:/fs/fsf
- sugar-bombs:/fs/gd
- albert:/fs/gd2
- churchy:/fs/gd3
- nutrimat:/fs/gp
- nutrimat:/fs/gp2
- albert:/fs/mailer
- placebo:/archive
- nutrimat:/fs/dist
- albert:/
- albert:/usr
- nutrimat:/
- placebo:/
- ernst:/usr1
-'
+# List of file systems to be dumped. If prefixed with a HOST:
+# the filesystem is accessed on the given HOST, unless it
+# coincides with the local machine name.
+# If a file system starts with a slash, it is handled as a local
+# one.
+BACKUP_DIRS='remote1:/etc remote1:/var/spool/crontab'
+# Alternatively, you may leave this variable unassigned, and
+# keep the list of filesystems to be dumped in file
+# $SYSCONFDIR/backup/dirs, one filesystem per line. Empty
+# lines and shell comments are allowed in this file. The location
+# of this file may be overridden using DIRLIST variable, e.g.:
+# DIRLIST=/etc/my-backup/dirlist