Automating backups to an encrypted drive

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 22:13:43 -0500,
  lanas <lanas at securenet.net> wrote:
> 
> I guess there's no other way than having the password in clear text in
> a script.  The script could be then be made readable only by root,
> everybody else gets a permission denied.  That could perhaps suffice.

Are you not trusting the people plugging in the usb devices to know the
password used to decrypt them?

If your really worry is something happening to them separate from the
computer, then embedding the password in a script isn't a big risk.