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backintime-askpass(1) USER COMMANDS backintime-askpass(1)

NAME

backintime-askpass - a simple backup tool for Linux.

This is the command line tool for piping passwords into ssh/sshfs and encfs.

SYNOPSIS

backintime-askpass

DESCRIPTION

Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux. This is a helper tool for piping passwords into ssh/sshfs and encfs. Options will will be read from environ variables. It doesn't provide any useful enduser service.

ENVIRON

ASKPASS_PROFILE_ID
Back In Time Profile-ID.
ASKPASS_MODE
Backup mode (or backend). Take a look at 'man backintime-config' section profile<N>.snapshots.mode
ASKPASS_TEMP
Temp FIFO socket used to pipe the password

SEE ALSO

backintime, backintime-config.

Back In Time also has a website: https://github.com/bit-team/backintime

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by BIT Team(<bit-team@lists.launchpad.net>).
Jan 2015 version 1.1.24