proxmox-backup

This ansible role :

• installs proxmox-backup-client on host
• copy a custom backup script

It has been successfully tested on :

• Debian "Bullseye" 11
• Debian "Bookworm" 12

Custom backup script

The custom script :

• copy & compress the entire system
• extract informations from your system (packages list, crontab, partition table, etc)
• can dump MySQL database(s)
• can dump PostgreSQL database(s)

All files are then send it to a custom Proxmox Backup Server.

Role variables

Variable	Type	Choices	Default	Comment
pbs_debian_release_name	string		bookworm
pbs_repo_key	string		https://enterprise.proxmox.com/debian/proxmox-release-bookworm.gpg
pbs_repo_no_subscription	string		deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pbs-client {{ pbs_debian_release_name }} main
pbs_user	string			mandatory
pbs_server	string			mandatory
pbs_datastore	string			mandatory
pbs_fingerprint	string			mandatory
pbs_password	string			mandatory
backup_host_id	string
backup_dir	string			mandatory
backup_local_retention	string			mandatory
backup_path_include	dict
- path: /etc list	string
- path: /var/www list	string
fs_mount: true list	boolean
backup_path_exclude	list
backup_mysql_enabled	boolean
backup_postgreslq_enabled	boolean
backup_cron_minute	int
backup_cron_hour	int

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

  - hosts: example
    ignore_errors: "{{ ansible_check_mode }}" # ignore errors only in check mode !

    roles:
      - { role: proxmox-backup, tags: ['proxmox-backup'] }

Example variables

---
pbs_user: 'my_user'
pbs_server: 'my_pbs_server:8007'
pbs_datastore: 'my_datastore'
pbs_fingerprint: 'aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff:'
pbs_password: 'my_password'

backup_dir: /backup
backup_local_retention: 2

backup_path_include:
  - path: /etc
  - path: /var/www
    fs_mount: true

backup_path_exclude:
  - /var/backups
  - *.log
  - cache/

backup_mysql_enabled: true

backup_cron_minute: 30
backup_cron_hour: 5

License

MIT Modern

Author Information

Written by Ludovic Cartier ludovic.cartier@brainsys.io