Automating backups to an encrypted drive
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sat Jan 26 12:22:17 UTC 2008
lanas wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I'd like to automate periodic backups to an encrypted drive. The
> drive is in fact a removable USB drive. It's fairly easy, if needed,
> to write a Perl script that would use expect and feed the password
> needed to mount the encrypted drive but, is there any way to prevent
> using a plain text password in any kind of script whatsoever ? I'm
> using dm-crypt, but I could change to another encryption mechanism.
I don't understand what you want to do. Can you expand?
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John
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