backintime-askpass(1)

backintime-askpass1

A simple backup tool for linux. this is the command line tool for piping passwords into ssh/sshfs and encfs.

Usage

backintime-askpass

Overview

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

Releases

5 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13

Author

Back In Time Team

From backintime-common 1.5.5-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.