Barman Ansible Role for Postgresql

This Ansible role install Barman, and configure backup process with one or more Postgresql clusters.

Requirements

This role requires root privileges, so tell ansible to use become: true in any convenient way for you.

Role Variables

The list contains variable names and example values.

barman: {map} Parameters for barman configuration. Structure is documented below.

The `barman` block supports:

log_level: INFO
servers: {map} Parameters for specific postgresql cluster which need to backup. Structure is documented below.

The `servers` block supports:

name: pgserver
host: backup
user: barman
password: barmanpass
slot_name: barmanwal
bckp_create_min: "0"
bckp_create_hour: "0"
bckp_create_day: "*"
bckp_delete_min: "0"
bckp_delete_hour: "3"
bckp_delete_day: "*"
minimum_redundancy: 1 default = 1. Minimum number of backups to be retained. Server.

Configuration example:

# Log levels: DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL
barman:
  log_level: INFO
  servers:
    - name: pgserver
      host: backup
      user: barman
      password: barmanpass
      slot_name: barmanwal
      bckp_create_min: "0"
      bckp_create_hour: "0"
      bckp_create_day: "*"
      bckp_delete_min: "0"
      bckp_delete_hour: "3"
      bckp_delete_day: "*"
      minimum_redundancy: 1

Role tags

barman Main tag.
barman_install Run specific task to install barman service.
barman_config Run specific task to create configuration files for barman service.
barman_cron Run specific task to create cron tasks for create new backups and delete oldest backups with barman service.
barman_users Run specific task to configure postgres user for fetching backups and WALs for backup node.

amiDMast/barman