Re: [Duplicity-talk] Does plain-text data ever hit the hard disk platters?

[Kenneth Loafman]

Matt Bostock wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Firstly I want to say that duplicity is *exactly* the tool I've been looking 
> for and does it well.
>
> I wanted to check whether any plain-text data ever hits the hard disk when 
> performing a backup with duplicity? For example, is it safe to make a local 
> backup on an unencrypted partition, using data from a dm-crypt encrypted 
> partition? Is any plain-text written to /tmp?

Short of possibly hitting swap, which no one can control, no.

...Ken