Following on from yesterday’s post I thought I’d use my newly acquired knowledge to streamline the encryption of my database backups. In theory I could just create a bash script that: Creates the backup. Encrypts the backup. Deletes the non-encrypted version. This is fine, it works. I have two issues with it: Passing the password […]

Today I was doing some research into the best way to encrypt files. My main use case was to encrypt my database backups prior to uploading them to cloud storage. So my criteria were: Could be run from the command line as most of my servers are Linux. I didn’t want to give the password […]