Good morning, we've got a couple of servers that run a script that dumps the mysql databases into a local directory on the server. Now this has two significant flaws. First, the mysql root password is stored as plain text in the script. Secondly, the databases dumps are just plain text, albiet zipped. Now I've been looking for various solutions and not come up with anything satisfactory. I could encrypt the zips but that still leaves the passwords in the script. I put the script and the dumps into an encrypted directory but then you can't run that with a cron job. I could have a remote server login and take backups of the databases but if possible I'd like something on the local server. These particular servers are either running debian or ubuntu with apache Any suggestions?