Ansible Role: mariabackup

This role installs and configures the MariaDB backup software Mariabackup on RedHat-based distributions. The role's responsibilities are to:

• Install Mariabackup.
• Create a system account with proper permissions to run backups under.
• Create a .my.cnf file with credentials in the system user's home directory.
• Create a database account with proper permissions to run backups under.

Requirements

Mariabackup requires the MariaDB version to be at least 10.1.23 or 10.2.7. Any version 10.3 and up will also do.

This role requires that MariaDB be already installed, and that mariabackup be available in the system's repositories.

See bertvv.mariadb for a role to setup the repositories and install MariaDB.

Role Variables

Here are the variables used with their default values

- mariabackup_user: "mariabackup" # The system user that backups will run under.
- mariabackup_mysql_user: "mariabackup" # The database user that backups will use.
- mariabackup_mysql_password: "" # The password for the database user.
- mariadb_root_password: "" # The root password the role will use to create the database user.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

Including an example of how to use your role (for instance, with variables passed in as parameters) is always nice for users too:

- hosts: server
  roles:
      - role: esoucy19.mariabackup

License

MIT

Author Information

This role was created in 2018 by Etienne Soucy.