From 2a45f431673d87a9bf33c65d4455b111ae276b45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Helfman Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 10:56:03 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Adding a note about repository encryption. --- README.md | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b02984b94..034bbfecc 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -38,7 +38,12 @@ available](https://torsion.org/hg/atticmatic). It's also mirrored on To get up and running with Attic, follow the [Attic Quick Start](https://attic-backup.org/quickstart.html) guide to create an Attic -repository on a local or remote host. +repository on a local or remote host. Note that if you plan to run atticmatic +on a schedule with cron, and you encrypt your attic repository with a +passphrase instead of a key file, you'll need to set the `ATTIC_PASSPHRASE` +environment variable. See [attic's repository encryption +documentation](https://attic-backup.org/quickstart.html#encrypted-repos) for +more info. If the repository is on a remote host, make sure that your local root user has key-based ssh access to the desired user account on the remote host.