diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 8c1d1c8430c6c27102613a72bd210e53a68cde0c..2a7ff4625b9c332d70456433f88b8eb4b97e7632 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -35,3 +35,4 @@ stefan <s.freudenberg@jpberlin.de> -- dup support for Amazon S3 buckets
 maniacmartin <martin@maniacmartin.com> -- rdiff confusing error message fix
 Chris Nolan <chris@cenolan.com> -- maildir subdirectory expansion
 Dan Carley -- mysql bugfix
+Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org> -- do not error when no jobs are configured
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7eb37d6ae7775c04214070f0e201fa13c9a24f68..972055fb8bbcbae7d579ab64c7187fdffd30c88b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+version 0.9.8.1 -- October 31, 2010 (boo!)
+    backupninja changes
+	 . Do not error out when no job is configured. Thanks to Jordi Mallach
+	   <jordi@debian.org> for the patch (Closes: #597684)
+	sys:
+	 . Route around broken vgcfgbackup not able to handle multiple VG arguments
+
 version 0.9.8 -- September 12, 2010
     backupninja changes
 	 . Added GZIP_OPTS option, defaulting to --rsyncable, so that this
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 59ccd10ca6ef90665b29ef84a5ed9a57afaf96ab..dd128c1eebc52f57ba36cf5ec1d6f226ae662551 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 # The maintainer mode is causing me grief with newest versions of autotools
 #AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
-AC_INIT([backupninja],[0.9.8],[backupninja@lists.riseup.net])
+AC_INIT([backupninja],[0.9.8.1],[backupninja@lists.riseup.net])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/backupninja.in])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
 
diff --git a/handlers/sys.in b/handlers/sys.in
index a92663e23766b43c9ed26ecb4e62d21d46effc70..fcf3e31cb8c42f6f5719f653a1809662ae4aa331 100755
--- a/handlers/sys.in
+++ b/handlers/sys.in
@@ -649,8 +649,11 @@ function doLvmBackup () {
    debug "$VGS --options vg_name --noheadings | @SED@ 's/^[ ]*//' | @SED@ 's/[ ]*$//' | tr '\n' ' '"
    vgs=`$VGS --options vg_name --noheadings | @SED@ 's/^[ ]*//' | @SED@ 's/[ ]*$//' | tr '\n' ' '`
    debug "Let's try to backup LVM metadata for detected volume groups: $vgs"
-   debug "$VGCFGBACKUP --file \"${lvmdir}\"/\'%s\' $vgs"
-   output=`$VGCFGBACKUP --file "${lvmdir}"/'%s' $vgs`
+   for vg in $vgs
+   do
+      debug "$VGCFGBACKUP --file \"${lvmdir}\"/\'%s\' $vg"
+      output=`$VGCFGBACKUP --file "${lvmdir}"/'%s' $vg`
+   done
    exit_code=$?
    debug $output
    case $exit_code in
diff --git a/src/backupninja.in b/src/backupninja.in
index b397a142069ab5ca9f641f65800c9427a86d871a..789debdd01a09ab802c0362e8cfd2a4924b010e5 100755
--- a/src/backupninja.in
+++ b/src/backupninja.in
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ else
    files=`find $configdirectory -follow -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f ! -name '.*.swp' | sort -n`
 
    if [ -z "$files" ]; then
-      fatal "No backup actions configured in '$configdirectory', run ninjahelper!"
+      info "No backup actions configured in '$configdirectory', run ninjahelper!"
    fi
 fi