diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bc27e6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+.project
+.settings
+/target
+.checkstyle
+.idea
+*.iml
+/vagrant/.vagrant
+/vagrant/ansible
+.classpath
+/bin
+
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d8c3222
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+language: java
+script: mvn clean verify
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e44a1ec..5ef3a36 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>commons-cli</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-cli</artifactId>
-            <version>1.2</version>
+            <version>1.3.1</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
             <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
-            <version>3.4.3</version>
+            <version>3.4.9</version>
             <exclusions>
                 <exclusion>
                     <groupId>com.sun.jmx</groupId>
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
index 9fa77fc..141c2f8 100644
--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -1,7 +1,25 @@
-    usage: guano
+BADGES
+ 
+[ ![Download](https://api.bintray.com/packages/feldoh/Guano/guano/images/download.svg) ](https://bintray.com/feldoh/Guano/guano/_latestVersion) [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/feldoh/guano.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/feldoh/guano)
 
-      -s,--server <arg>          the zookeeper remote server to connect to (ie
-                                 "localhost:2181"
+NAME
+
+     guano -- dump or restore Zookeeper trees
+
+SYNOPSIS
+
+     guano [operands ...]
+
+DESCRIPTION
+
+     This tool dumps and restores zookeeper state to/from a matching folder structure on disk.
+     The server argument is mandatory then either a node to dump and where to dump it,
+     or a previous dump to restore and the root to restore it to.
+
+     usage: guano [-v] -s <zk_connect> [-d <znode> -o <folder>] [-r <znode-root> -i <folder>]
+
+      -s,--server <arg>          *Required, the zookeeper remote server to connect to
+                                 i.e. "localhost:2181"
                                  
       -d,--dump-znode <arg>      the znode to dump (recursively)
       -o,--output-dir <arg>      the output directory to which znode
@@ -14,3 +32,11 @@
                                  restored
 
       -v,--verbose               enable debug output
+
+      Note: When restoring you need to provide one level up as the node selected for the dump is included.
+        e.g. java -jar target/guano-0.1a.jar -s "zookeeper-01.mydomain.com" -o "/tmp/zkdump" -d "/myroot"
+             java -jar target/guano-0.1a.jar -s "zookeeper-01.mydomain.com" -i "/tmp/zkdump" -r "/"
+             
+PREBUILT BINARIES
+
+     Pre-built binaries are available for most common platforms on Bintray
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/d2fn/guano/DumpJob.java b/src/main/java/com/d2fn/guano/DumpJob.java
index 488272e..0d57318 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/d2fn/guano/DumpJob.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/d2fn/guano/DumpJob.java
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 package com.d2fn.guano;
 
-import org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException;
 import org.apache.zookeeper.WatchedEvent;
 import org.apache.zookeeper.Watcher;
 import org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper;
 import org.apache.zookeeper.data.Stat;
 
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.List;
 
 /**
@@ -62,8 +64,7 @@ private void dumpChild(ZooKeeper zk, String outputPath, String znodeParent, Stri
         if(!children.isEmpty()) {
 
             // ensure parent dir is created
-            File f = new File(outputPath);
-            boolean s = f.mkdirs();
+            createFolder(outputPath);
 
             // this znode is a dir, so ensure the directory is created and build a __znode value in its dir
             writeZnode(zk, outputPath + "/_znode", currznode);
@@ -90,9 +91,26 @@ private void writeZnode(ZooKeeper zk, String outFile, String znode) throws Excep
                 out.flush();
                 out.close();
             }
+        } else {
+            if (!outFile.contains("_znode") && stat.getEphemeralOwner() == 0) {
+                // Create an empty folder for Permanent nodes.
+                createFolder(outFile);
+            }
+
         }
     }
 
+    private void createFolder(String path) {
+        File f = new File(path);
+        if(!f.exists() ) {
+            boolean s = f.mkdirs();
+            if (s) {
+                System.out.println("Created folder: " + path);
+            }
+        }
+
+    }
+
     @Override
     public void process(WatchedEvent watchedEvent) {
         ;;