Ansible Role: BorgBackup Client

Set up encrypted, compressed and deduplicated backups using BorgBackup and Borgmatic. Currently supports Debian/Ubuntu, CentOS/Red Hat/Fedora, Archlinux and Manjaro.

Works great with BorgBase.com - Simple and Secure Hosting for your Borg Repositories. To manage BorgBase repos via Ansible, also see Andy Hawkins' BorgBase Collection.

Main features

• Install Borg and Borgmatic from PyPi or distro packages
• Set up Borgmatic config
• Schedule regular backups using Cron or Systemd timer

Breaking changes

• Older versions of this role set up a separate Cron job for creating and checking backups. With recent Borgmatic version, this feature is now managed in Borgmatic. As a result the extra Cron job will be removed by this role.
• Older versions of this role only supported Cron for scheduling. If you use Systemd timers, be sure to remove the Cron job in /etc/cron.d/borgmatic first. The role will also alert you when trying to use both timers.

Example playbook with root as backup user and Cron timer

- hosts: all
  roles:
  - role: borgbase.ansible_role_borgbackup
    borg_encryption_passphrase: CHANGEME
    borg_repository:
      - ssh://xxxxxx@xxxxxx.repo.borgbase.com/./repo
    borg_source_directories:
      - /var/www
    borgmatic_hooks:
      before_backup:
      - echo "`date` - Starting backup."
      postgresql_databases:
      - name: users
        hostname: database1.example.org
        port: 5433

Example playbook with service user and Systemd timer

- hosts: all
  roles:
  - role: borgbase.ansible_role_borgbackup
    borg_encryption_passphrase: CHANGEME
    borg_repository: ssh://xxxxxx@xxxxxx.repo.borgbase.com/./repo
    borgmatic_timer: systemd
    borg_user: "backupuser"
    borg_group: "backupuser"
    borg_source_directories:
      - /var/www
    borg_retention_policy:
      keep_hourly: 3
      keep_daily: 7
      keep_weekly: 4
      keep_monthly: 6

Installation

Download from Ansible Galaxy

$ ansible-galaxy install borgbase.ansible_role_borgbackup

Clone latest version from Github

$ git clone https://github.com/borgbase/ansible-role-borgbackup.git roles/ansible_role_borgbackup

Role Variables

Required Variables

• borg_repository: Full path to repository. Your own server or BorgBase.com repo. Can be a list if you want to backup to multiple repositories.

Optional Variables

• borg_dep_packages: Dependency Packages to install borg(backup) and borgmatic.

• borg_distro_packages: contains the names of distributions packages for borg(backup) and borgmatic, only used if borg_install_method is set to package.

• borg_encryption_passcommand: The standard output of this command is used to unlock the encryption key.

• borg_encryption_passphrase: Password to use for repokey or keyfile. Empty if repo is unencrypted.

• borg_exclude_from: Read exclude patterns from one or more separate named files, one pattern per line.

• borg_exclude_patterns: Paths or patterns to exclude from backup. See official documentation for more.

• borg_install_method: By default pip is used to install borgmatic. To install via your distributions package manager set this to package and (if needed) overwrite the borg_distro_packages variable to contain your distributions package names required to install borgmatic. Note that many distributions ship outdated versions of borgbackup and borgmatic; use at your own risk.

• borg_require_epel: When using borg_install_method: package on RHEL-based distributions, the EPEL repo is required. To disable the check (e.g. when using a custom mirror instead of the epel-release package), set this to false. Defaults to {{ ansible_os_family == 'RedHat' and ansible_distribution != 'Fedora' }} (i.e. true on Enterprise Linux-based distros).

• borg_lock_wait_time: Config maximum seconds to wait for acquiring a repository/cache lock. Defaults to 5 seconds.

• borg_one_file_system: Don't cross file-system boundaries. Defaults to true

• borg_pip_packages: Dependancy Packages (pip) to install borg(backup) and borgmatic.

• borg_remote_path: Path to the borg executable on the remote. It will default to borg.

• borg_remote_rate_limit: Remote network upload rate limit in kiBytes/second.

• borg_retention_policy: Retention policy for how many backups to keep in each category (daily, weekly, monthly, etc).

• borg_source_directories: List of local folders to back up. Default is /etc/hostname to prevent an empty backup.

• borg_ssh_key_name: Name of the SSH public and pivate key. Default id_ed25519

• borg_ssh_key_file_path: SSH-key to be used. Default ~/.ssh/{{ borg_ssh_key_name }}

• borg_ssh_key_type: The algorithm used to generate the SSH private key. Choose: rsa, dsa, rsa1, ecdsa, ed25519. Default: ed25519

• borg_ssh_command: Command to use instead of just "ssh". This can be used to specify SSH options.

• borg_version: Force a specific borg version to be installed

• borg_venv_path: Path to store the venv for borg(backup) and borgmatic

• borgmatic_check_last: Number of archives to check. Defaults to 3

• borgmatic_checks: List of consistency checks. Defaults to monthly checks. See docs for all options.

• borgmatic_config_name: Name to use for the Borgmatic config file. Defaults to config.yaml

• borgmatic_timer_hour: Hour when regular create and prune cron/systemd-timer job will run. Defaults to {{ 6 | random }}

• borgmatic_timer_minute: Minute when regular create and prune cron/systemd-timer job will run. Defaults to {{ 59 | random }}

• borgmatic_hooks: Hooks to monitor your backups e.g. with Healthchecks. See official documentation for more.

• borgmatic_timer: If the variable is set, a timer is installed. A choice must be made between cron and systemd.

• borgmatic_relocated_repo_access_is_ok: Bypass Borg error about a repository that has been moved. Defaults to false

• borgmatic_store_atime: Store atime into archive. Defaults to true

• borgmatic_store_ctime: Store ctime into archive. Defaults to true

• borgmatic_version: Force a specific borgmatic version to be installed

• borg_user: Name of the User to create Backups (service account)

• borg_group: Name of the Group to create Backups (service account)

Contributing

Pull requests (PR) are welcome, as long as they add features that are relevant for a meaningful number of users. All PRs are tested for style and functionality. To run tests locally (needs Docker):

$ pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
$ molecule test

License

MIT/BSD

Author

© 2018-2023 Manuel Riel and contributors.