Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Module Description - What the module does and why it is useful
3. Setup - The basics of getting started with backup
   • What backup affects
   • Setup requirements
   • Beginning with backup
4. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
5. Reference - An under-the-hood peek at what the module is doing and how
6. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.
7. Development - Guide for contributing to the module
8. Changelog/Contributors

Overview

Puppet module to install the ruby backup gem and create jobs to back up various services and directories.

Module Description

The ruby backup gem allows backing up files and various databases and optionally compressing, encrypting, and splitting them into smaller chunks, and copying them to remote systems or file storage service.

This module will install the backup gem, but more powerfully allows the creation and scheduling of jobs based on the backup DSL.

A script is provided in the scripts directory to create a standalone RPM with fpm which includes a global binary to run jobs.

Setup

What backup affects

• backup ruby gem
• backup config files
• backup job cron entries

Setup Requirements

Dependencies to build ruby gems (and backup and it's dependencies specifically) need to be installed for this module. It can optinally install all needed dependencies from a base system.

Beginning with backup

To install backup:

    puppet module install evenup-backups

Usage

To install the backup gem:

    class { 'backup': }

Creating a backup job to archive /etc to the local path /backups:

    backup::job { 'etc':
      types        => 'archive',
      add          => '/etc',
      storage_type => 'local',
      path         => '/backups',
    }

Create a backup job to archive a riak database and its config, compressing, splitting into 1G chunks, and copying to S3 on Sundays at 01:10:

    backup::job { 'riak':
      types          => ['archive', 'riak'],
      add            => '/etc/riak',
      cookie         => 'supersecret',
      storage_type   => 's3',
      compressor     => 'bzip2'
      level          => 9,
      split_into     => 1024,
      aws_access_key => 'AWS_ACCESS_KEY',
      aws_secret_key => 'AWS_SECRET_KEY',
      bucket         => 'backup-bucket',
      weekday        => 0,
      hour           => 1,
      minute         => 10,
    }

Reference

Public Classes

'backup'

ensure

String. Whether or not the backup gem should be installed.

Default: latest

package_name

String. Name of the package to be installed

Default: backup

package_provider

String. Package provider to install the gem

Default: gem

install_dependencies

Boolean. Whether or not development dependenceis for building the backup gem should be installed.

Default: true

package_dependencies

String/Array of Strings. List of packages to install as development dependencies.

purge_jobs

Boolean. Whether or not unmanaged backup jobs should be purged.

Default: true

Public Defines

backup::job

Creates backup jobs.

types

String/Array of Strings. List of backup types to include in this job.

description

String. A description to use for this backup job.

hour

Cron syntax. Hour the backup job should be scheduled

Default: 23

minute

Cron syntax. Minute the backup job should be scheduled

Default: 5

monthday

Cron syntax. Day of the month the backup job should be scheduled

Default: *

month

Cron syntax. Month the backup job should be scheduled

Default: *

weekday

Cron syntax. Day of the week the backup job should be scheduled

Default: *

ensure

String. Whether or not the job should be present

Default: present

#####utilities

Hash. Commands and paths provided as key:value pairs to the location of utility commands if not available in the default path

#####tmp_path

String. Set the tmp-path for a backup job run

Default: ~/Backup/.tmp

add

String/Array of Strings. Used with the archive backup type, list of paths to be included for backup

exclude

String/Array of Strings. Used with the archive backup type, list of paths to be excluded for backup

dbname

String. Used with multiple database types, database name to back up

host

String. Hostname to back up

Default: localhost

username

String. Username to connect to the database as

password

String. Password for username to use to connect to the database

port

Integer. Port to use to connect to the database

collections

String/Array of Strings. MongoDB collections to back up

lock

Boolean. Whether to enable MongoDB lock when backing up

Default: undef (false)

node

String. Used with Riak backups, node name to back up.

Default: riak@${::fqdn}

cookie

String. Cookie to be used for riak backups

Default: riak

#####rdb_path

String. Path to the redis database

Default: /var/lib/redis/dump.rdb

storage_type

String. Type of storage to use for the backup archive

keep

String. Number of backups to keep on storage

split_into

Integer. Size (MB) to split individual backup archives into

path

String. Path for destination archive

aws_access_key

String. AWS access key when using S3 storage type

aws_secret_key

String. AWS secret key when using S3 storage type

bucket

String. Bucket to store archive when using S3 storage type

aws_region

String. Region to store archive when using S3 storage type

encryptor

String. Encryptor to use on backup archive

openssl_password

String. Password for archive when using OpenSSL encryptor

compressor

String. Compressor to use on backup archive

level

String. Compression level to use with compressor

enable_email

Boolean. Enable email notifications

Default: false

email_success

Boolean. If email enabled, should successful backups generate an email

Default: false

email_warning

Boolean. If email enabled, should backups exiting with warnings generate an email

Default: true

email_failure

Boolean. If email enabled, should backups exiting with errors generate an email

Default: true

email_from

String. Email address backup job emails should be sent from

email_to

String. Email address backup job emails should be sent to

relay_host

String. Host backup job notifications should be relayed off of

Default: localhost

relay_port

Integer. Port on relayhost emails should be sent to

Default: 25

enable_hc

Boolean. Whether backup job noticies should be sent to HipChat

Default: false

hc_success

Boolean. If HipChat notifications are enabled, should successful backups be posted

Default: false

hc_warning

Boolean. If HipChat notifications are enabled, should backup jobs exiting with warning be posted

Default: true

hc_failure

Boolean. If HipChat notifications are enabled, should backup jobs exiting with an error be posted

Default: true

hc_token

String. HipChat API token

hc_from

String. Name backup job alerts should be posted as

Default: Backup

hc_notify

Array of Strings. HipChat rooms that should be notified about backup jobs

Private Classes

• backup::config: Global configuration
• backup::install: Installs packages
• backup::params: Default parameters

Limitations

• Requires ruby >= 1.9.3

Development

Improvements and bug fixes are greatly appreciated. See the contributing guide for information on adding and validating tests for PRs.

Changelog / Contributors

Changelog Contributors