Ansible Role: backup_server

This role set up a GNU/Linux backup server.

Requirements

You need private/public SSH keys to access GIT repositories to backup.

Role Variables

All variables and default values are defined in defaults/main.yml :

# Private/public SSH keys for the backup user on the backup server to access GIT repositories to backup
private_key_backup_user_host: ""
public_key_backup_user_host: ""

# GIT repositories to backup
git_repositories: []

# Name of the cron service and cron package (depends on your OS, can be cron, cronie, crond...)
cron_client_service_name: cron
cron_client_package: cron

# Name of the GIT package
git_package: git

# Name of the Borkbackup package
borgbackup_package: borgbackup

# Backup folder
backup_folder: "/data"

# Folder to deploy backup scripts
backup_scripts_folder: "/usr/local/sbin"

# GIT backup user
backup_user_git: "backup-git"

# Crontask GIT backup scheduling
backup_git_cron_weekday: "*"
backup_git_cron_hour: "1"
backup_git_cron_minute: "30"

# Crontask GIT archive backup scheduling
backup_git_archive_cron_weekday: "*"
backup_git_archive_cron_hour: "2"
backup_git_archive_cron_minute: "30"

# Alias config file
aliases_config_file: "/etc/aliases"

# User or email to send GIT backup scripts report
backup_git_mail_target: "root"

WARNING : you need to define all of these variables, else you may have errors (use ansible-vault).

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: backup_server
  roles:
    - backup_server

License

BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2020 by Nemo.

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