Ansible role: Gem-backup

Ansible role for backup. Currently this works on Debian and RedHat based linux systems. Tested platforms are:

• Ubuntu 16.04
• Ubuntu 14.04
• Debian 9
• Debian 8
• CentOS 7
• CentOS 6

Requirements

Requires Ruby; recommended role for Ruby installation: geerlingguy.ruby

Role Variables

The variables that can be passed to this role and a brief description about them are as follows. (For all variables, take a look at defaults/main.yml)

gem_backup_version: 4.4.0

# cron task
gem_backup_cron_state: present
gem_backup_cron_hour: 1
gem_backup_cron_minute: 0

# backup PostgreSQL
gem_backup_postgres: true
gem_backup_postgres_db_host: localhost
gem_backup_postgres_db_port: 5432
gem_backup_postgres_username: postgres
gem_backup_postgres_password: postgres
gem_backup_postgres_db_name: somedb

# backup files
gem_backup_files: true
gem_backup_files_add:
  - /etc
  - /opt/some/path
gem_backup_files_exclude:
  - /opt/some/path/tmp

# backup upload to local path
gem_backup_local: true

# backup upload to ftp
gem_backup_ftp: true
gem_backup_ftp_host: ftp.example.com
gem_backup_ftp_username: ftp
gem_backup_ftp_password: ftp

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

Including an example of how to use your role (for instance, with variables passed in as parameters) is always nice for users too:

- hosts: backup-client
  roles:
      - geerlingguy.ruby
      - mbaran0v.gem-backup

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2018 by Maxim Baranov.