ccremer/ansible-lsyncd

Ansible role for installing and configuring lsync

ansible-lsyncd

Installs and configures the latest lsync release.

Requirements

• Root (sudo) access
• Github and package repo access
• SSH passwordless access between the hosts

Usage

Example usage:

- hosts: webservers
  tasks:
    - import_role:
        name: ccremer.lsyncd
      vars:
        lsyncd_targets:
          - source: /var/www/html
            target: /backup/html
            host: backupserver.localdomain
            desc: Backup of html data # desc is optional, it just adds a comment

Role Variables

Advanced usage (with default values):

lsyncd_logging_dir: /var/log/lsyncd
lsyncd_logging_status_file: lsyncd.status
lsyncd_logging_file: lsync.log
lsyncd_conf: /etc/lsyncd.conf.lua
lsyncd_targets: []
lsyncd_extra_settings: []
lsyncd_retry: true # the 'insist' option
lsyncd_install_dependencies: true # install dependencies outside of this role
lsyncd_release: release-2.2.3 # the tar.gz source file on github
lsyncd_update: false # skip installing new version, just update config
lsyncd_default_rsync_args: # default rsync options for all sync targets
  - "archive = true"
lsyncd_cleanup: true # remove some build packages after installation

Example with local mirror

- hosts: webservers
  tasks:
    - import_role:
        name: ccremer.lsyncd
      vars:
        lsyncd_targets:
        - source: /local/whatever
          target: /mnt/tapearchive
          proto: default.rsync
          extra_args:  # this list is within the 'sync' section
            - "excludeFrom = \"/etc/lsyncd/tapearchive.list\""
            - "delay = 15"
          rsync_extra_args: # this list is within the 'rsync' section
            - "_extra = { \"--omit-dir-times\" }"
            - "compress = true"        

Gotchas

• This role does not setup the SSH connection between the hosts.
• You may need to increase the inotify watches, in which case you need to define lsyncd_max_user_watches: 524288 (default on debian is 8192, which may be too low).