diff --git a/client/CHANGELOG.md b/client/CHANGELOG.md
index e87f7e4..d743123 100644
--- a/client/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/client/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,11 +11,16 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Changed
 
 * split functions into libraries
+* add evobackupctl script
+* change the "zzz_evobackup" script to a template, easy to copy with evobackupctl
 
 ### Deprecated
 
 ### Removed
 
+* update-evobackup-canary is managed by ansible-roles.git
+* deployment by Ansible is managed elsewhere (now in evolix-private.git, later in ansible-roles.git)
+
 ### Fixed
 
 ### Security
diff --git a/client/update-evobackup-canary b/client/update-evobackup-canary
deleted file mode 100644
index 868c3be..0000000
--- a/client/update-evobackup-canary
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,129 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-PROGNAME="update-evobackup-canary"
-REPOSITORY="https://gitea.evolix.org/evolix/evobackup"
-
-VERSION="22.06"
-readonly VERSION
-
-# base functions
-
-show_version() {
-    cat <<END
-${PROGNAME} version ${VERSION}
-
-Copyright 2022 Evolix <info@evolix.fr>,
-               Jérémy Lecour <jlecour@evolix.fr>,
-               and others.
-
-${REPOSITORY} 
-
-${PROGNAME} comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
-and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
-See the GNU General Public License v3.0 for details.
-END
-}
-show_help() {
-    cat <<END
-${PROGNAME} is updating a canary file for evobackup.
-
-Usage: ${PROGNAME} [OPTIONS]
-
-Main options
- -w, --who      who has updated the file (default: logname())
- -f, --file     path of the canary file (default: /zzz_evobackup_canary)
- -V, --version  print version and exit
- -h, --help     print this message and exit
-END
-}
-
-main() {
-    if [ -z "${who:-}" ]; then
-        who=$(logname)
-    fi
-    if [ -z "${canary_file:-}" ]; then
-        canary_file="/zzz_evobackup_canary"
-    fi
-    # This option is supported both on OpenBSD which does not use GNU date and on Debian
-    date=$(date "+%FT%T%z")
-
-    printf "%s %s\n" "${date}" "${who}" >> "${canary_file}"
-}
-
-# parse options
-# based on https://gist.github.com/deshion/10d3cb5f88a21671e17a
-while :; do
-    case $1 in
-        -h|-\?|--help)
-            show_help
-            exit 0
-            ;;
-        -V|--version)
-            show_version
-            exit 0
-            ;;
-
-        -w|--who)
-            # with value separated by space
-            if [ -n "$2" ]; then
-                who=$2
-                shift
-            else
-                printf 'ERROR: "-w|--who" requires a non-empty option argument.\n' >&2
-                exit 1
-            fi
-            ;;
-        --who=?*)
-            # with value speparated by =
-            who=${1#*=}
-            ;;
-        --who=)
-            # without value
-            printf 'ERROR: "--who" requires a non-empty option argument.\n' >&2
-            exit 1
-            ;;
-
-        -f|--file)
-            # with value separated by space
-            if [ -n "$2" ]; then
-                canary_file=$2
-                shift
-            else
-                printf 'ERROR: "-f|--file" requires a non-empty option argument.\n' >&2
-                exit 1
-            fi
-            ;;
-        --file=?*)
-            # with value speparated by =
-            canary_file=${1#*=}
-            ;;
-        --file=)
-            # without value
-            printf 'ERROR: "--file" requires a non-empty option argument.\n' >&2
-            exit 1
-            ;;
-
-        --)
-            # End of all options.
-            shift
-            break
-            ;;
-        -?*)
-            # ignore unknown options
-            printf 'WARN: Unknown option : %s\n' "$1" >&2
-            exit 1
-            ;;
-        *)
-            # Default case: If no more options then break out of the loop.
-            break
-            ;;
-    esac
-
-    shift
-done
-
-export LC_ALL=C
-
-set -u
-
-main