morrismukiri/ansible-duplicity-role

Install Duplicity using Ansible.

Role Name

This role installs duplicity from the duplicity source code at http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

It uses the Duplicity 0.7 Series.

main.yml installs dependencies using apt. It then uses pip to install python-swift & keystone.

It then downloads and installs Duplicity from the tar.gz source from launchpad.

Logging is done to /var/log/duplicity.log

The actual backup scripts are kept in the corresponding playbooks, along with cron jobs & keys.

Example Playbook

ansible-playbook -i ./inventory/hosts ./duplicity.yml -K --tags install

Variables

Most variables are stored in the other playbooks with the follwing exceptions:

duplicity_download_path: where you want to put the tar.gz file
duplicity_download_url: the Full URL to the tar.gz for the 0.7 file.
duplicity_version: Version of Duplicity

duplicity_src: The list of directories to backup
duplicity_dest: The swift://URL of the backup site
duplicity_keep: Used for the "--full-if-older-than" switch in Duplicity
duplicity_all_but_full: Used to tell how many old backup sets to keep

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Author Information

Blake Carver, Mark Cooper.

License

The project is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

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