Question for backup and restore

Reiner_Nippes · November 19, 2019, 1:10pm

follow the readme.md

backup is configured if you define a backup target:

ReinerNippes/nextcloud/blob/2350f115b8299a67dd09fc5d8b09538bcc95bfd7/inventory#L70


      
          
          # php Version
          php_version          = '7.3'
          
          # Install turn server for Nextcloud Talk
          talk_install         = false
          
          # Allways get the latest version of Nextcloud
          next_archive         = https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/latest.tar.bz2
          
          # Install restic backup tool if backup_folder is not empty
          # more info about restic: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
          # to use a local directory as a restic repository (not a good idea anyway)
          restic_repo          = ''   # e.g. '/var/backups/nextcloud'
          
          # use rclone to backup a cloud storage, see https://rclone.org for more details
          # configure also rclone_remote in group_vars/all.yml
          # restic_repo         = "rclone:backup-selfhosted:selfhosted-{{ lookup('password', '{{ credential_store }}/restic_backup_s3_bucket_uid chars=ascii_lowercase,digits length=12') }}/backup"
          
          # crontab setings for the backup script - default daily at 3pm
          restic_backup_day    = '*'

that was the easy part.

there no restore script yet. although it’s easy to restore using restic. if you know how. have a look at the restic manual.
backup to the same filesystem makes no sense. better you backup to some kind of cloud storage (aws, azure, digitalocean,…). you’ll find some examples in my repo and restic/rclone docu. but it can be challenging.
you won’t be happy with nextcloud using my playbook if you don’t have basic linux skills. it just save you from copy&pasting one of the many howtos out there. but in case of an outage you have to fix the problem on your own.