Ansible Role: dbrennand.autorestic

Ansible role to configure backups using autorestic.

Requirements

None.

Assumptions

This role places the autorestic and restic binaries into /opt/autorestic/bin and /opt/restic/bin respectively. Symbolic links are created to /usr/local/bin.

Role Variables

autorestic_architecture: mips

Overrides ansible_architecture in case you have some exotic combination. See dependencies for further details.

autorestic_version: 1.8.3
autorestic_restic_version: 0.18.0

The version of autorestic and restic to install.

autorestic_install_directory:
  path: /opt/autorestic/bin
  # Optional
  # owner: owner
  # group: group
  # mode: 0700
autorestic_restic_install_directory:
  path: /opt/restic/bin
  # ...

The directories to install the autorestic and restic binaries at.

autorestic_config:
  version: 2
  locations:
    home:
      from: /home/me
      to: remote
      # Every Monday
      cron: "0 0 * * MON"
  backends:
    remote:
      type: b2
      path: "myBucket:backup/home"
      env:
        B2_ACCOUNT_ID: ID
        B2_ACCOUNT_KEY: Key

See the autorestic documentation for details on the YAML configuration.

autorestic_config_template: autorestic.yml.j2

The autorestic.yml.j2 template to use for the autorestic YAML configuration. By default the content of autorestic_config is templated. This can be overridden to use a custom template. See #14 for an example.

autorestic_config_file: ~/.autorestic.yml

The autorestic YAML configuration to be placed into the ~/.autorestic.yml file.

autorestic_info: false

Whether or not to run autorestic info to validate that the autorestic YAML configuration is valid.

autorestic_check: false

Whether or not to run autorestic check to make sure backends are configured properly and initialises them if they are not already.

autorestic_cron: false
autorestic_cron_verbose: false

Whether or not to create an autorestic crontab entry to trigger automated backups. Use autorestic_cron_verbose to enable verbose logging. Autorestic locations need to be configured with cron.

autorestic_state: present

Whether or not to remove autorestic, restic, configuration and crontab entry. Set to absent for removal.

This will not affect any backends and their data.

Dependencies

This role depends on precompiled binaries published on GitHub:

• cupcakearmy/autorestic
• restic/restic

When using autorestic_architecture, refer to the release assets for supported binary architectures.

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - dbrennand.autorestic

Molecule Tests 🧪

To test the role, use Molecule: molecule test

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE for details.

Authors & Contributors

dbrennand - Author

whysthatso - Contributor

PleaseStopAsking - Contributor

markstos - Contributor

micxer - Contributor