Re: [Duplicity-talk] Wow

[dean gaudet]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Ben FrantzDale wrote:

> I'd been thinking it'd be great to have a remote, versioning, encrypted
> backup system. When I mentioned that to a friend today, he told me about
> Duplicity. All I can say is Wow. It's great when software Just Works.
>
> Good Job.
>
>
> One suggestion: If duplicity automatically ran ssh-agent or did
> something similar to avoid having to enter passwords all day, that'd be
> helpful.

you probably want a passphraseless key specifically for duplicity (but
which can run only duplicity).  i'm sure it's similar to what i've
documented for rdiff-backup
<http://arctic.org/~dean/rdiff-backup/unattended.html>

-dean