I bought a second USB SSD which has now become the second backup SSD. I ended up skipping my switch to Podman because I got invested in writing another script.

I’m not interested in having my backup drives automatically decrypt and mount at startup but those were the only guides I could find. I still want to manually type my password and wanted an easier way handle that.

I ended up writing this script which turned the 4 lines of code I was using before into a 400+ line single file script.

Once I pair it with my rsync script, I’ll be able to remotely, automatically and interactively decrypt, mount, update my backup, unmount and re-encrypt my USB SSD. The script also has tests to make sure the mount directory is ready for use and not sending anything with rsync if the encrypted SSD is not mounted. I just finishes writing the script and now I have to integrate it into my systems.

I was originally going to add the second backup to my local-only network Pi server but I think I’ll add it to my web facing Pi server so I am able to access it remotely. I would feel a lot more comfortable knowing that data on there isn’t easily accessible because it’s not auto-mounting.

Other than that, things are boring and boring is good.