diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index 72d59cc..aac73e2 100644
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
-Thanks go to the following people:
+Thanks go to the following people (sorted by alphabet):
 
-* the whole #cLinux channel
-   - for testing and debugging (those I mean should know ;-)
 * Alexey Maximov
    - for finding return-value and shell limitation bugs
+* #cLinux IRC channel on irc.freenode.org
+   - for testing and debugging (those I mean should know ;-)
 * Daniel Aubry
    - for reporting many hints
+* Jens-Christoph Brendel
+   - Added automatic backup manager (contrib/jbrendel-autobackup)
+* John Lawless
+   - A lot of patches and some very interesting discussions.
 * Markus Meier
    - for finding a really simple solution for choosing the right backup to
      clone from: Make it independent of the interval, simply choose the last
diff --git a/README b/README
index e74464d..401d778 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ ccollect was inspired by rsnapshot [1], which has some problems:
 Please use tools/report_success.sh to report success, if you are successfully
 using ccollect.
 
+Have a look at doc/HACKING, if you plan to change ccollect.
+
 A small try to visualize the differences in a table:
 
 +---------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
diff --git a/ccollect.sh b/ccollect.sh
index cd13ac8..d6831bc 100755
--- a/ccollect.sh
+++ b/ccollect.sh
@@ -149,8 +149,11 @@ i=1
 no_sources=0
 
 #
-# Create source "array"
+# Capture options and create source "array"
 #
+WE=""
+ALL=""
+NO_MORE_ARGS=""
 while [ "$#" -ge 1 ]; do
    eval arg=\"\$1\"; shift
 
@@ -166,7 +169,7 @@ while [ "$#" -ge 1 ]; do
             ALL=1
             ;;
          -v|--verbose)
-            VERBOSE=1
+            set -x
             ;;
          -p|--parallel)
             PARALLEL=1
@@ -190,13 +193,6 @@ done
 # also export number of sources
 export no_sources
 
-#
-# be really, really, really verbose
-#
-if [ "${VERBOSE}" = 1 ]; then
-   set -x
-fi
-
 #
 # Look, if we should take ALL sources
 #
@@ -283,16 +279,15 @@ while [ "${i}" -lt "${no_sources}" ]; do
    backup="${CSOURCES}/${name}"
    c_source="${backup}/source"
    c_dest="${backup}/destination"
-   c_exclude="${backup}/exclude"
-   c_verbose="${backup}/verbose"
-   c_vverbose="${backup}/very_verbose"
-   c_rsync_extra="${backup}/rsync_options"
-   c_summary="${backup}/summary"
    c_pre_exec="${backup}/pre_exec"
    c_post_exec="${backup}/post_exec"
-   f_incomplete="delete_incomplete"
-   c_incomplete="${backup}/${f_incomplete}"
-   c_remote_host="${backup}/remote_host"
+   for opt in exclude verbose very_verbose rsync_options summary delete_incomplete remote_host ; do
+      if [ -f "${backup}/$opt" -o -f "${backup}/no_$opt"  ]; then
+         eval c_$opt=\"${backup}/$opt\"
+      else
+         eval c_$opt=\"${CDEFAULTS}/$opt\"
+      fi
+   done
 
    #
    # Marking backups: If we abort it's not removed => Backup is broken
@@ -304,16 +299,6 @@ while [ "${i}" -lt "${no_sources}" ]; do
    #
    begin_s=$(date +%s)
 
-   #
-   # unset possible options
-   #
-   EXCLUDE=""
-   RSYNC_EXTRA=""
-   SUMMARY=""
-   VERBOSE=""
-   VVERBOSE=""
-   DELETE_INCOMPLETE=""
-
    _techo "Beginning to backup"
 
    #
@@ -408,13 +393,6 @@ while [ "${i}" -lt "${no_sources}" ]; do
    ( pcmd cd "$ddir" ) || _exit_err "Cannot change to ${ddir}. Skipping."
 
 
-   #
-   # Check whether to delete incomplete backups
-   #
-   if [ -f "${c_incomplete}" -o -f "${CDEFAULTS}/${f_incomplete}" ]; then
-      DELETE_INCOMPLETE="yes"
-   fi
-
    # NEW method as of 0.6:
    # - insert ccollect default parameters
    # - insert options
@@ -442,10 +420,12 @@ while [ "${i}" -lt "${no_sources}" ]; do
    fi
 
    #
-   # Verbosity for rsync
+   # Verbosity for rsync, rm, and mkdir
    #
-   if [ -f "${c_vverbose}" ]; then
+   VVERBOSE=""
+   if [ -f "${c_very_verbose}" ]; then
       set -- "$@" "-vv"
+      VVERBOSE="-v"
    elif [ -f "${c_verbose}" ]; then
       set -- "$@" "-v"
    fi
@@ -453,33 +433,25 @@ while [ "${i}" -lt "${no_sources}" ]; do
    #
    # extra options for rsync provided by the user
    #
-   if [ -f "${c_rsync_extra}" ]; then
+   if [ -f "${c_rsync_options}" ]; then
       while read line; do
          set -- "$@" "$line"
-      done < "${c_rsync_extra}"
+      done < "${c_rsync_options}"
    fi
 
    #
    # Check for incomplete backups
    #
-   pcmd ls -1 "$ddir/${INTERVAL}"*".${c_marker}" > "${TMP}" 2>/dev/null
-
-   i=0
-   while read incomplete; do
-      eval incomplete_$i=\"$(echo ${incomplete} | sed "s/\\.${c_marker}\$//")\"
-      i=$(($i+1))
-   done < "${TMP}"
-
-   j=0
-   while [ "$j" -lt "$i" ]; do
-      eval realincomplete=\"\$incomplete_$j\"
-      _techo "Incomplete backup: ${realincomplete}"
-      if [ "${DELETE_INCOMPLETE}" = "yes" ]; then
-         _techo "Deleting ${realincomplete} ..."
-         pcmd rm $VVERBOSE -rf "${ddir}/${realincomplete}" || \
-            _exit_err "Removing ${realincomplete} failed."
+   pcmd ls -1 "$ddir/${INTERVAL}"*".${c_marker}" 2>/dev/null | while read marker; do
+      incomplete="$(echo ${marker} | sed "s/\\.${c_marker}\$//")"
+      _techo "Incomplete backup: ${incomplete}"
+      if [ -f "${c_delete_incomplete}" ]; then
+         _techo "Deleting ${incomplete} ..."
+         pcmd rm $VVERBOSE -rf "${incomplete}" || \
+            _exit_err "Removing ${incomplete} failed."
+         pcmd rm $VVERBOSE -f "${marker}" || \
+            _exit_err "Removing ${marker} failed."
       fi
-      j=$(($j+1))
    done
 
    #
diff --git a/contrib/README b/contrib/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ab30b7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/README
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+This directory contains patches or programs contributed by others
+which are either not yet integrated into ccollect or may be kept
+seperated generally.
diff --git a/doc/HACKING b/doc/HACKING
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..00db4d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/HACKING
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+Hello Hacker,
+
+I really appreciate your interest in hacking this software, but
+I am kind of critical when seeing patches. Thus I created this
+file to give you some hints of my thinking quirks.
+
+
+Submitting patches
+------------------
+Make my life easier, make your life easier, use a version control system (vcs).
+For this software the preferred vcs is git. Clone the latest repo, create
+a new local branch (git checkout -b <branchname>) write down your ideas.
+
+When you're done, push all your stuff out to some public repo and drop a
+mail to the mailinglist, what you did and where to get it.
+
+
+Introduce a feature or change behaviour
+---------------------------------------
+Uhh, fancy! You have had a great idea, then it's time to change
+the major version, so others know that something changed.
+
+If the configuration format is changed, add a script to tools/
+to allow users upgrade their configuration to this major version.
+
+And now comes the most difficult part: Add documentation. Nobody
+benefits from your cool feature, if it is not known. I know, writing
+documentation is not so much fun, but you also expect good documentation
+for this software, don't you?
+
+
+If you think my thinking quirks must be corrected
+-------------------------------------------------
+See above ("Submitting patches") and submit a patch to this file.
+
+
+Thanks for reading.