Re: [Duplicity-talk] Re: How to run duplicity with a Cron Job

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 07:57:03AM -0800, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> 
> # Ouch.  Can you think of a better way?  Hint: using a public key
> # isn't any better, since you still need the password to verify
> # the copied stuff.
> 0 0 * * * PASSPHRASE="Boy, it sure is painful to store my passphrase in my 
> cron file" duplicity ...

A marginal improvement would be to call duplicity from a shell script:

------->8---------------------
#!/bin/sh

. /root/duplicity-pass
export PASSPHRASE

duplicity [...]
------->8---------------------


/root/duplicity-pass would of course be mode 700, and contain a line
of the form 

PASSPHRASE="hackme"

Cheers,

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