Automating backups to an encrypted drive

[John Summerfield]

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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