Ansible Quick Start Guide

Use case 5 – automated backup of important documents

In this use case, we are trying to build a backup solution that does not use too much of the bandwidth by archiving everything that needs to be backed up. We are basically going to select a folder to be compressed and moved to a secure host. The following code makes sure that all the necessary dependencies are installed, prepares the backup folder, compresses it, and then sends it. We are going to use a module called synchronize, which is basically a wrapper around rsync, the famous data synchronization tool. It is frequently used to provide a quick backup solution:

---- name: Setup and connect network shared folders  hosts: Linux  become: yes  gather_facts: yes  tasks: - name: Install the ...