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Add documentation note about using includes for specifying passphrases (#769).

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Dan Helfman 2023-10-10 09:16:58 -07:00 committed by axel simon
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@ -102,3 +102,9 @@ Additionally, borgmatic action hooks support their own [variable
interpolation](https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/how-to/add-preparation-and-cleanup-steps-to-backups/#variable-interpolation),
although in that case it's for particular borgmatic runtime values rather than
(only) environment variables.
Lastly, if you do want to specify your passhprase directly within borgmatic
configuration, but you'd like to keep it in a separate file from your main
configuration, you can [use a configuration include or a merge
include](https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/how-to/make-per-application-backups/#configuration-includes)
to pull in an external password.