This role allows to backup an IPA server, to copy a backup from the server to the controller, to copy all backups from the server to the controller, to remove a backup from the server, to remove all backups from the server, to restore an IPA server locally and from the controller and also to copy a backup from the controller to the server.
Note: The ansible playbooks and role require a configured ansible environment where the ansible nodes are reachable and are properly set up to have an IP address and a working package manager.
- Server backup
- Server backup to controller
- Copy backup from server to controller
- Copy all backups from server to controller
- Remove backup from the server
- Remove all backups from the server
- Server restore from server local backup.
- Server restore from controller.
- Copy a backup from the controller to the server.
FreeIPA versions 4.5 and up are supported by the backup role.
- RHEL/CentOS 7.6+
- CentOS Stream 8+
- Fedora 26+
- Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04
Controller
- Ansible version: 2.15+
Node
- Supported FreeIPA version (see above)
- Supported distribution (needed for package installation only, see above)
Example inventory file with fixed domain and realm, setting up of the DNS server and using forwarders from /etc/resolv.conf:
[ipaserver]
ipaserver.example.com
Example playbook to create a backup on the IPA server locally:
---
- name: Playbook to backup IPA server
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
roles:
- role: ipabackup
state: present
Example playbook to create a backup of the IPA server that is transferred to the controller using the server name as prefix for the backup and removed on the server:
---
- name: Playbook to backup IPA server to controller
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
vars:
ipabackup_to_controller: yes
# ipabackup_keep_on_server: yes
roles:
- role: ipabackup
state: present
Example playbook to create a backup of the IPA server that is transferred to the controller using the server name as prefix for the backup and kept on the server:
---
- name: Playbook to backup IPA server to controller
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
vars:
ipabackup_to_controller: yes
ipabackup_keep_on_server: yes
roles:
- role: ipabackup
state: present
Copy backup ipa-full-2020-10-01-10-00-00
from server to controller:
---
- name: Playbook to copy backup from IPA server
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
vars:
ipabackup_name: ipa-full-2020-10-01-10-00-00
ipabackup_to_controller: yes
roles:
- role: ipabackup
state: copied
Copy backups ipa-full-2020-10-01-10-00-00
and ipa-full-2020-10-02-10-00-00
from server to controller:
---
- name: Playbook to copy backup from IPA server
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
vars:
ipabackup_name:
- ipa-full-2020-10-01-10-00-00
- ipa-full-2020-10-02-10-00-00
ipabackup_to_controller: yes
roles:
- role: ipabackup
state: copied
Copy all backups from server to controller that are following the backup naming scheme:
---
- name: Playbook to copy all backups from IPA server
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
vars:
ipabackup_name: all
ipabackup_to_controller: yes
roles:
- role: ipabackup
state: copied
Remove backup ipa-full-2020-10-01-10-00-00
from server:
---
- name: Playbook to remove backup from IPA server
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
vars:
ipabackup_name: ipa-full-2020-10-01-10-00-00
roles:
- role: ipabackup
state: absent
Remove backups ipa-full-2020-10-01-10-00-00
and ipa-full-2020-10-02-10-00-00
from server:
---
- name: Playbook to remove backup from IPA server
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
vars:
ipabackup_name:
- ipa-full-2020-10-01-10-00-00
- ipa-full-2020-10-02-10-00-00
roles:
- role: ipabackup
state: absent
Remove all backups from server that are following the backup naming scheme:
---
- name: Playbook to remove all backups from IPA server
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
vars:
ipabackup_name: all
roles:
- role: ipabackup
state: absent
Example playbook to restore an IPA server locally:
---
- name: Playbook to restore an IPA server
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
vars:
ipabackup_name: ipa-full-2020-10-22-11-11-44
ipabackup_password: SomeDMpassword
roles:
- role: ipabackup
state: restored
Example playbook to restore IPA server from controller:
---
- name: Playbook to restore IPA server from controller
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
vars:
ipabackup_name: ipaserver.test.local_ipa-full-2020-10-22-11-11-44
ipabackup_password: SomeDMpassword
ipabackup_from_controller: yes
roles:
- role: ipabackup
state: restored
Example playbook to copy a backup from controller to the IPA server:
---
- name: Playbook to copy a backup from controller to the IPA server
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
vars:
ipabackup_name: ipaserver.test.local_ipa-full-2020-10-22-11-11-44
ipabackup_from_controller: yes
roles:
- role: ipabackup
state: copied
The example playbooks to do the backup, copy a backup and also to remove a backup, also to do the restore, copy a backup to the server are part of the repository in the playbooks folder.
backup-server.yml
backup-server-to-controller.yml
copy-all-backups-from-server.yml
copy-backup-from-server.yml
remove-all-backups-from-server.yml
remove-backup-from-server.yml
restore-server.yml
restore-server-from-controller.yml
copy-backup-from-controller.yml
Please remember to link or copy the playbooks to the base directory of ansible-freeipa if you want to use the roles within the source archive.
Variable | Description | Required |
---|---|---|
ipabackup_backend | The backend to restore within the instance or instances, str | no |
ipabackup_data | Backup only the data with state: present and restore only the data with state: restored , bool (default: no ) |
no |
ipabackup_disable_role_check | Perform the backup even if this host does not have all the roles used in the cluster. This is not recommended, bool (default: no ) |
no |
ipabackup_gpg | Encrypt the backup, bool (default: no ) |
no |
ipabackup_gpg_keyring | Full path to the GPG keyring without the file extension, only for GPG 1 and up to IPA 4.6 str | no |
ipabackup_instance | The 389-ds instance to restore (defaults to all found), str | no |
ipabackup_log_file | Log to the given file on server for state: present and state: restored only, string |
no |
ipabackup_logs | Include log files in backup, bool (default: no ) |
no |
ipabackup_no_logs | Do not restore log files from the backup, bool (default: no ) |
no |
ipabackup_online | Perform the LDAP backups online for data only with state: present and perform the LDAP restore online for data only with state: restored . If ipabackup_data is not set it will automatically be enabled. bool (default: no ) |
no |
ipabackup_password | The diretory manager password needed for restoring a backup with state: restored , str |
no |
state | present to make a new backup, absent to remove a backup and copied to copy a backup from the server to the controller or from the controller to the server, restored to restore a backup. string (default: present ) |
yes |
Variable | Description | Required |
---|---|---|
ipabackup_name | The IPA backup name(s). Only for removal of server local backup(s) with state: absent , to copy server local backup(s) to the controller with state: copied and ipabackup_from_server set, to copy a backup from the controller to the server with state: copied and ipabackup_from_controller set or to restore a backup with state: restored either locally on the server of from the controller with ipabackup_from_controller set. If all is used all available backups are copied or removed that are following the backup naming scheme. string list |
no |
ipabackup_keep_on_server | Keep local copy of backup on server with state: present and ipabackup_to_controller , bool (default: no ) |
no |
ipabackup_to_controller | Copy backup to controller, prefixes backup with node name, remove backup on server if ipabackup_keep_on_server is not set, bool (default: no ) |
no |
ipabackup_controller_path | Pre existing path on controller to store the backup in with state: present , path on the controller to copy the backup from with state: copied and ipabackup_from_controller set also for the restore with state: restored and ipabackup_from_controller set. If this is not set, the current working dir is used. string |
no |
ipabackup_name_prefix | Set prefix to use for backup directory on controller with state: present or state: copied and ipabackup_to_controller set, The default is the server FQDN, string |
no |
ipabackup_from_controller | Copy backup from controller to server, restore if state: restored , copy backup to server if state: copied , bool (default: no ) |
no |
ipabackup_install_packages | Install needed packages to be able to apply the backup with state: restored , bool (default: yes ) |
no |
ipabackup_firewalld_zone | The value defines the firewall zone that will be used with state: restored . This needs to be an existing runtime and permanent zone, bool (default: no ) |
no |
ipabackup_setup_firewalld | The value defines if the needed services will automatically be opened in the firewall managed by firewalld with state: restored , bool (default: yes ) |
no |
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