madhermit 0fcbef29a9 Allow per-app configurations (#9 )

This PR allows for multiple per application borgmatic configurations as per this article: https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/how-to/make-per-application-backups/

2019-10-24 13:05:19 +08:00

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Ansible Role: BorgBackup Client

An Ansible Role that sets up automated remote backups on the target machine. Uses BorgBackup and Borgmatic. Currently supports Debian/Ubuntu and CentOS/RHEL/Fedora.

Role Variables

Required Arguments

borg_repository: Full path to repository. Your own server or BorgBase.com repo. Only required if not using the BorgBase.com auto creation of repositories.
borg_source_directories: List of local folders to back up.

Optional Arguments

borg_encryption_passphrase: Password to use for repokey or keyfile. Empty if repo is unencrypted.
borgmatic_large_repo: Does repo-checking on a weekly basis instead of daily. Good for repos with 100GB+ size.
borgmatic_failure_command: Run this command when an error occurs. E.g. curl -s -F "token=xxx" -F "user=xxx" -F "message=Error during backup" https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json
borg_exclude_patterns: Paths or patterns to exclude from backup. See official documentation for more.
borg_one_file_system: Don't cross file-system boundaries. Defaults to true
borg_exclude_from: Read exclude patterns from one or more separate named files, one pattern per line.
borg_ssh_command: Command to use instead of just "ssh". This can be used to specify ssh options.
borg_encryption_passcommand: The standard output of this command is used to unlock the encryption key.
borg_retention_policy: Retention policy for how many backups to keep in each category (daily, weekly, monthly, etc).

Optional Arguments for BorgBase.com repository auto creation

create_repo: Whether to let the role create the repository for the server. Default: False
bb_token: Your BorgBase.com API-Token. Should be Create Only for security reasons.
bb_region: Which region the backups should be saved in. Choice: "eu" or "us".
bb_new_sshkey: Whether to use the automatically created SSH_key. Default: True
bb_sshkey: If there is a key already available on BorgBase.com that should be used, it can be set with this variable. The key needs to be exactly the same, including key-comment.
bb_append: Should the permission of the newly created repository be append only? Default: True
bb_quota: To use a quota for the Server. Default: False
bb_quota_size: Will need to be set if bb_quota is set to True. In Gigabyte.
bb_alertdays: After how many days of no backup activity should alerts be sent out? Defaults to off.
bb_repo_name: What name the created repository should have. Defaults to the inventory_hostname.

Example Playbook

- hosts: webservers
  roles:
  - role: borgbackup
    borg_encryption_passphrase: CHANGEME
    borg_repository: m5vz9gp4@m5vz9gp4.repo.borgbase.com:repo
    borg_source_directories:
      - /srv/www
      - /var/lib/automysqlbackup
    borg_exclude_patterns:
      - /srv/www/old-sites
    borg_retention_policy:
      keep_hourly: 3
      keep_daily: 7
      keep_weekly: 4
      keep_monthly: 6

Planned features

Testing via vagrant
Multiple repos in one role-call instead of callng this role multiple times.
Support more OSs, like Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS, SuSE, Gentoo, Slackware, Arch, BSD

License

MIT/BSD

Author

Manuel Riel. Created for BorgBase.com - Simple and Secure Hosting for your Borg Repositories.

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