Description

Cookbook for installing duplicity backup cronjobs.... (removes zabbix dependencies)

Providers

To use the providers, append the following to your metadata.rb

depends 'duplicity'

duplicity_cronjob

Installs a duplicity cronjob

duplicity_cronjob 'myduplicity' do
  name             'myduplicity'        # cronjob filename (name_attribute)

  # attributes for the default cronjob template
  interval         'daily'              # cron interval (hourly, daily, monthly)
  duplicity_path   '/usr/bin/duplicity' # path to duplicity
  logfile          '/dev/null'          # log cronjob output to this file



  # duplicity parameters
  backend          'ftp://server.com/folder' # backend to use (default: nil, required!)
  passphrase       'supersecret'             # passphrase (leave empty to use data bag)

  include        [ '/etc/', '/root/', '/var/log/' ] # default directories to backup
  exclude        []                                 # default directories to exclude from backup
  archive_dir    '/tmp/duplicity-archive'           # duplicity archive directory
  temp_dir       '/tmp/duplicity-tmp'               # duplicity temp directory
  keep_full      5                                  # keep 5 full backups
  nice           10                                 # be nice (cpu)
  ionice         3                                  # ionice class (3 => idle)
  full_backup_if_older_than '7D'                    # take a full backup after this interval

  # command(s) to run at the very beginning of the cronjob (default: empty)
  exec_pre %\if [ -f "/nobackup" ]; then exit 0; fi\

  # command(s) to run after cleanup, but before the backup (default: empty)
  exec_before [ 'pg_dumpall -U postgres |bzip2 > /tmp/dump.sql.bz2']

  # command(s) to run after the backup has finished (default: empty)
  exec_after  [ 'touch /backup-sucessfull', 'echo yeeeh' ]

  # take duplicity passphrase from databag
  data_bag         'duplicity'
  data_bag_item    node['hostname']
  data_bag_secret  '/etc/chef/encrypted_data_bag_secret'
  data_bag_element 'passphrase'

  # alternatively, you can specify your own template to use
  cookbook         'duplicity'          # cookbook to take erb template from
  source           'cronjob.sh.erb'     # erb template to use
  variables        {}                   # custom variables for erb template
end