Ansible Role Backup

About

This Ansible role is used for deploying a backup script on a Debian server and then putting the backups in an S3 bucket on AWS.

Requirements

• SSH access to the server
• aws-cli on your computer
• pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml

Role Variables

---


customer: yourcustomer # used for naming resources
app: myapplication # Used for naming resources
jira_key: APP # Used for tagging resource in AWS

# S3 settings
aws_profile: default
s3_human_readable_sizes: true

# MySQL database backup options.
backup_mysql_user: backup
backup_mysql_password: y0urverys3curep4ss

# Script settings
retentiontime: 30 days
directory: daily
minimal_backups: 5

# Backup cron job options.
backup_cron_job_state: present
backup_hour: "3"
backup_minute: "00"

# User under which backup jobs will run.
backup_user: root

# Path to where backups configuration will be stored.
backup_path: /{{ backup_user }}/backup

Example Playbook

#!/usr/bin/env ansible-playbook


- hosts: production
  name: Database backup to S3 script
  become: true
  become_user: root

  roles:
    - skrepr.backup

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2023 by Jeroen van der Meulen, commisioned by Skrepr