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 Installation:
 
 1. place all `*.sh` files of the package into directory `/usr/local/sbin/`
+1. (if you'll use remote backups) create a dataset to store backups:
+
+    zfs create zroot/backups    # replace 'zroot' with your pool name
 
 Done! Is your ZFS pool name other than _zroot_? Then set the _ZPOOL_ environment
-variable to your zpool name when calling these scripts.
+variable to your zpool name when calling these scripts. See below for more.
 
 Need to control multiple ZFS pools? See section "Managing multiple ZFS Pools" below.