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Your Current Backup Automation Is Missing the Key: Ansible, AWS S3, and Cron 🔑
- Enhance your current backup automation process by automating critical files & app data's backup to AWS S3 using Ansible and set up Cron Jobs for scheduling.
- Follow the given steps to install and configure the necessary components: AWS Account, AWS CLI, Ansible, Python and Boto3, Ansible Collections, and Cron.
- You can verify your S3 Bucket to list and read objects, create S3 Bucket via AWS CLI, install Ansible on Linux Server, and add policy permissions for IAM user or role.
- Create two playbooks: Backup to AWS S3 - compresses a directory, uploads the tarball to S3 bucket, and Restore from AWS S3 - downloads the backup files and restores to the initial directory location.
- Manually run the playbooks before setting up a Cron job to ensure you get the expected results. Verify that the files are uploaded to and restored from AWS S3.
- Finally, set up the Cron Job by opening the Crontab file for editing, adding a Cron job line for Ansible backup playbook, and verifying the update through the 'crontab -l' command.
- Ensure that necessary permissions are set for both S3 bucket and local file system to avoid any access issues during the restore process.
- You can check out the Ansible playbook repository in Git to access and utilize scripts effectively.
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