role-postgresql-backup/README.md

role-postgresql-backup

Ansible role to automaticcally backup your postgresql database you created with ansible

WÖRK IN PROGRESS, obviously!

Configuration

• required packages to create postgres dump and add a cronjob

postgresql_backup:
  required_packages:
    - postgresql-client
    - cron

• Where do we store our database backups:

postgresql_backup:
  backup_dir: /var/backup/postgresql

• Dateformat we use to create daily backup folder

postgresql_backup:
  date_format: '%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M'

• Create cronjob to run backup script?

postgresql_backup:
  cron: true

• User that should run the backup script as cronjob

postgresql_backup:
  user: root

• Minute and hour to run the cronjob

postgresql_backup:
  cron_minute: '*'
  cron_hour: '0'

• Which database*(s)* do we want to backup` (example) The values for host and port are optional!

postgresql_backup:
  databases:
   - name: psql_database_name
     user: psql_database_user
     password: Topf_Secret1
     host: localhost
     port: 5432

• Export Option for pg_dump.

p – plain-text SQL script c – custom-format archive d – directory-format archive t – tar-format archive

postgresql_backup:
  export_option: "p"

• save backup as tar.gz

postgresql_backup:
  create_tar_gz: true

• Perform basic versionscheck (true is recomended)

submodules_versioncheck: false