When nwipe has completed erasing the drives and the user
hits return to exit which then creates the PDF certificates,
the PDF and log files are then either automatically transferred
to a USB stick, assuming that's where you booted ShredOS from
or the files are transferred to a network server, if the ShredOS
grub.cfg files were configured to do that.
However, say there was a network failure or somebody inadvertently
removed the USB drive, the PDF files & logs would not get saved.
Previously you would have had to manually copy the files using the
command line.
Now when you get to the stage where ShredOS asks whether you want
to reboot, shutdown or restart nwipe, if there are any PDF files
that have not been saved a new options 'a' archive to USB will
be available. This option will only show up if there are PDFs that
have not been saved. So the message will read:
r=reboot, s=shutdown, a=archive to USB, spacebar=restart nwipe
Apart from the above scenario, this feature may also prove useful
to somebody, wiping many computers while using a single USB stick.
For those that don't know, it's not necessary to keep the USB stick
plugged into the computer. Once nwipe has appeared you can pull
the USB stick out and use it to boot another computer. Returning it
to the first computer when the wipes have completed and you want to
save the PDFs to USB.
This patch also standardises the date format used in the ShredOS
logs so it matches the nwipe format.
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