Ansible role to configure backups using autorestic.

None.

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.

autorestic_architecture: mips

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

autorestic_version: 1.7.7
autorestic_restic_version: 0.15.1

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

The autorestic YAML configuration to be placed into the ~/.autorestic.yml file. See the autorestic documentation for details on the YAML configuration.

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.

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.

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - dbrennand.autorestic

To test the role, use Molecule: molecule test

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

dbrennand - Author

whysthatso - Contributor

PleaseStopAsking - Contributor