I have an Ansible playbook to perform the following task:
Access a remote host via ssh and create a text file that lists all the backups on the remote host filesystem that can be inserted into an email body. I am looking for a more efficient way to write this or to find a best practice to implement this.
Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated!
Below is the current iteration in use to locate backups on the remote host:
- name: Create backup log from Remote Host
shell: |
cd /mnt/bntestmnt; echo -e "Backup server: [ipv4 address goes here] \nBackup directory: /export
/Backups/ESG \n\nConfluence Backups:" > BackupStatus.txt
ls -td Confluence/daily/* | xargs du -sh >> BackupStatus.txt; echo " " >> BackupStatus.txt;
ls -td Confluence/weekly/* | xargs du -sh >> BackupStatus.txt; echo -e "\nGitlab Backups:" >>
BackupStatus.txt
ls -td GitLab/daily/* | xargs du -sh >> BackupStatus.txt; echo " " >> BackupStatus.txt
ls -td GitLab/weekly/* | xargs du -sh >> BackupStatus.txt; echo -e "\nJira Backups:" >>
BackupStatus.txt
ls -td Jira/daily/* | xargs du -sh >> BackupStatus.txt; echo " " >> BackupStatus.txt
ls -td Jira/weekly/* | xargs du -sh >> BackupStatus.txt; cat BackupStatus.txt
register: Backup_Status
delegate_to: [remote host name goes here]
Because '>>' redirects the command output to a text file, Ansible cannot see the result, so 'cat' is used to display the final product so it can be logged as a variable, to be inserted into the email body.
This is the expected output:
Backup server: [ipv4 address goes here]
Backup directory: /export/Backups/ESG
Confluence Backups:
4.1G Confluence/daily/Thu-23Mar23
4.0G Confluence/daily/Wed-22Mar23
4.0G Confluence/daily/Tue-21Mar23
4.0G Confluence/daily/Mon-20Mar23
4.0G Confluence/daily/Sun-19Mar23
3.9G Confluence/daily/Sat-18Mar23
3.9G Confluence/daily/Fri-17Mar23
3.7G Confluence/weekly/Fri-10Mar23
3.5G Confluence/weekly/Fri-03Mar23
3.4G Confluence/weekly/Fri-24Feb23
3.3G Confluence/weekly/Sat-18Feb23
Gitlab Backups:
2.5G GitLab/daily/Thu-23Mar23
2.5G GitLab/daily/Wed-22Mar23
2.4G GitLab/daily/Tue-21Mar23
2.4G GitLab/daily/Mon-20Mar23
2.4G GitLab/daily/Sun-19Mar23
2.3G GitLab/daily/Sat-18Mar23
2.3G GitLab/daily/Fri-17Mar23
2.2G GitLab/weekly/Fri-10Mar23
2.1G GitLab/weekly/Fri-03Mar23
2.2G GitLab/weekly/Fri-24Feb23
Jira Backups:
2.6G Jira/daily/Thu-23Mar23
2.6G Jira/daily/Wed-22Mar23
2.6G Jira/daily/Tue-21Mar23
2.6G Jira/daily/Mon-20Mar23
2.6G Jira/daily/Sun-19Mar23
2.6G Jira/daily/Sat-18Mar23
2.6G Jira/daily/Fri-17Mar23
2.6G Jira/weekly/Fri-10Mar23
2.6G Jira/weekly/Fri-03Mar23
2.6G Jira/weekly/Fri-24Feb23
2.6G Jira/weekly/Fri-17Feb23
The list within each application has a newline between the last instance of 'daily' and the first instance of 'weekly'
Some alternate formats I have tried to use are below. I ran into issues in trying to format the output to achieve the desired result.
`ls -td Confluence/{daily,weekly}/* | xargs du -sh`
or
`find Confluence -mindepth 2 -type d -exec du -sh {} \;`
(This version seems to sort the list incorrectly, as the size/dates are out of order)
I've also looked into modifying the task to utilize Jinja2 to create a template, but feel that I may be out of my depth with that method. See below for the attempted format:
- name: Create backup log from Remote Host
template:
src: backup_report.j2
dest: /mnt/bntestmnt/BackupStatus.txt
vars:
confluence_backups: [variable goes here]
gitlab_backups: [variable goes here]
jira_backups: [variable goes here]
I'm still trying to figure out how I would write the contents of "backup_report.j2", but I have the following inside:
Backup server: [ipv4 address]
Backup directory: /export/Backups/ESG
Confluence Backups:
{% for backup in confluence_backups %}
{{ backup }}
{% endfor %}
Gitlab Backups:
{% for backup in gitlab_backups %}
{{ backup }}
{% endfor %}
Jira Backups:
{% for backup in jira_backups %}
{{ backup }}
{% endfor %}
