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.
• 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_config_name: Name to use for the borgmatic config file. Defaults to config.yml
• 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).

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.