Steamulo Restic

Production grade installation and deployment of restic

Role Variables

Here are the main variables that should be set :

restic_repositories: {}
  example:
    location: /backup
    password: password
    check: true
    check_args: "--read-data-subset=10%"
    forget: true
    forget_args: "--prune --group-by paths,tags --keep-within-daily 14d --keep-within-weekly 4m --keep-within-monthly 1y"
    environment_variables: {}

restic_folders: []
  - paths: []
    excludes: []
    repositories: []
    tags: ""
    pre_backup_cmd: ""
    post_backup_cmd: ""

restic_stdouts: []
  - cmd: ""
    temp_files:
      - filename: ""
        content: ""
    filename: ""
    repositories: []
    tags: ""

Example Playbook

Example can be found under the molecule folder

Development

This role use the molecule framework in order to simplify the development process.

Requirements:

• Python 3
• Docker

Setup your local environnement with python virtualenv prior to using molecule : . venv.sh

This command will create a virtual env, activate it and download python dependencies.

Use molecule converge to create a local environnement and molecule login to log into the test machine.

Before any commit ensure that every test are passing with molecule test

License

BSD

Author Information

Steamulo - www.steamulo.com

Sources and Inspirations

• https://blog.cubieserver.de/2021/restic-backups-with-systemd-and-prometheus-exporter/
• https://github.com/arillso/ansible.restic
• https://github.com/angristan/ansible-restic