Ansible role backup

The purpose of this role is to make backups of your system.

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Example Playbook

This example is taken from molecule/default/converge.yml and is tested on each push, pull request and release.

---
- name: Converge
  hosts: all
  become: true
  gather_facts: true

  roles:
    - role: robertdebock.backup
      backup_cleanup: false

The machine needs to be prepared. In CI this is done using molecule/default/prepare.yml:

---
- name: Prepare
  hosts: all
  become: true
  gather_facts: false

  roles:
    - role: robertdebock.bootstrap
    - role: robertdebock.mysql
      mysql_databases:
        - name: test_db
          encoding: utf8
          collation: utf8_bin
    - role: robertdebock.buildtools
    - role: robertdebock.epel
    - role: robertdebock.python_pip
    - role: robertdebock.postgres
      postgres_databases:
        - name: test_db
          state: present

Also see a full explanation and example on how to use these roles.

Role Variables

The default values for the variables are set in defaults/main.yml:

---
# defaults file for backup

# The directory on the Ansible controller where to store backups.
backup_directory: backups

# The directory on the Ansible managed node where to temporarily store backups.
backup_remote_directory: /tmp

# Cleanup files created on the {{ backup_remote_directory }} when done?
backup_cleanup: true

# What timestamp format to use when saving files.
backup_timestamp: "{{ ansible_date_time.date }}"

# What compression type to use, choose from bz2, tar, xz or zip
backup_format: zip

backup_objects:
  - name: varspool
    type: directory
    source: /var/spool