Provisions a local backup storage folder powered by zBackup.
Other than automatically creating the zbackup repo, it also manages timestamps for dumps. So,
each repo is accompanied by easy to use dump and getlatest scripts.
We don't manage the propagation of these backups to other servers. Other roles have to take care of that.
- Ansible 2.3+
- One of these target systems:
- Debian jessie
- Ubuntu 14.04
- Ubuntu 16.04
Here's an example usage:
zbackup_storage_path: /opt/myproject/backups
zbackup_owner: myproject_user
Once the system is provisioned, dump your tar directly in your backup's dump command with:
cat mybackup.tar | '/opt/myproject/backups/dump'
Important note: it needs to be a tar-NOT-gzipped file. Don't feed it something else.
Then, you can get back your latest dump with:
'/opt/myproject/backups/getlatest' > mybackup.tar
Or, you can get a gzipped version of the dump with:
'/opt/myproject/backups/getlatest -z' > mybackup.tar.gz