Deploy restic backups using systemd services and timers.
This role has two modes:
userwhich adds user-wide services and timers (for your normal user).serverwhich adds system-wide services and timers.
You need restic installed and your repositories already initialized.
| Name | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
restic_binary |
no | Full path of the restic binary. |
restic_backup_mode |
yes | Backup mode (either "user" or "server"). |
restic_user_home |
no | Home directory of the user (if running in "user" mode). |
restic_user_name |
no | Name of the user (if running in "user" mode). |
restic_user_group |
no | Group of the user (if running in "user" mode). |
restic_backups |
yes | List of backup definitions for restic. |
restic_conf_directory |
no | Configuration directory (if running in "server" mode). |
The restic_backups list contains N items defining the backups.
Each backup definition must contain the following information:
- The name of the repository (used for the systemd services: only use alphanumeric characters)
- The environment variables for restic to use the repository
- The calendar spec for the systemd timer.
- The directories to backup
It can also contain a list of directories to exclude.
For example this defines two repositories:
restic_backups:
- name: remote-scaleway
env:
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: "{{ restic_scaleway_aws_access_key_id }}"
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: "{{ restic_scaleway_aws_secret_access_key }}"
RESTIC_REPOSITORY: "s3:s3.fr-par.scw.cloud/foobar/home"
RESTIC_PASSWORD: "{{ restic_remote_password }}"
calendar_spec: "*-*-* *:00/15:00"
backup_directories:
- /home/vincent
excludes:
- /home/vincent/tmp
- name: remote-linode
env:
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: "{{ restic_linode_aws_access_key_id }}"
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: "{{ restic_linode_aws_secret_access_key }}"
RESTIC_REPOSITORY: "s3:eu-central-1.linodeobjects.com/foobar/barbaz"
RESTIC_PASSWORD: "{{ restic_remote_password }}"
calendar_spec: "*-*-* *:00/15:00"
backup_directories:
- /data/media
excludes:
- /data/media/MoviesMIT
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