rsync_backup Ansible playbook

This role will deploy rbackup.sh, a simple rsync-based differential backup script with history purge.

Requirements

None

Role Variables

Beside deploying the script, this role will manage your backup crontab for you if you populate rsync_backup_crons:

• rsync_backup_crons: list of dicts containing the following items:
  • name: a unique name for the backup
  • source: a rsync-compatible source to backup
  • destination: a rsync-compatible destination directory to put backups in
  • keep: number of previous backups to keep
  • day: cron-compatible day specification
  • hour: cron-compatible hour specification
  • minute: cron-compatible minute specification
  • log: log file name (will be written in /var/log/rbackup/ and rotated)

Example

rsync_backup_crons:
  - name: Some files
    source: /vagrant
    destination: /backupvagrant
    keep: 5
    day: "*"
    hour: 1
    minute: 5
  - name: Some other files
    source: /etc/logrotate.d
    destination: /backuplogrotate
    keep: 3
    day: "*"
    hour: 5
    minute: 15
    log: backuplogrotate.log

Tags

• rbackup

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

Specs

To run tests locally in a Vagrant machine, just hit:

vagrant up
vagrant ssh -c specs

If you want to run the test playbook fast (i.e., without re-installing Ansible), just run:

vagrant ssh -c 'specs -p'

License

MIT

Author Information

@leucos.