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Every night I'm running a cron backup script, that gathers the files that I think is essential for the system and stores then in Info-ZIP archives. What I really would like is to encrypt these archives, but is it possible to do this without user input ? Thanks in advance /flywheel |
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In short yes it is. The real question is why are you encrypting them, and where are you storing them once encrypted. You can use a couple of methods to encrypt the data, but you will need to have a key, or password stored in the script or on the box doing the encrypting. GPG is a simple method of doing this, there are much more complicated version of this procedure as well. To encrypt the file you would use something like: not the -c tells is to use symmetric encryption and to decrypt the file: Jeez - I spent 20 minutes with the gpg documentation and never saw that - I wonder what else I have missed over the years. Cool - many thanks
(05 Jul '11, 18:23)
flywheel
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