Ansible Role: Percona XtraBackup

Installs Percona XtraBackup.

Note: For now only MySQL 8 is supported.

Role Variables

Variable	Default	Description
xtrabackup_create_mysql_user	false	Create a MySQL user for XtraBackup
xtrabackup_mysql_user_name	bkpuser	MySQL backup user name
xtrabackup_mysql_user_password	none	MySQL backup user password (required when create_mysql_backup_user is true)
xtrabackup_mysql_grants	[ BACKUP_ADMIN, PROCESS, RELOAD, LOCK TABLES, REPLICATION CLIENT ]	List of grants to apply to the MySQL backup user
xtrabackup_create_system_user	false	...
xtrabackup_system_user_name	xtrabackup	...

Dependencies

This role does not install MySQL nor configures XtraBackup for running. Configuration will probably come in future versions.

xtrabackup works best with MySQL and Percona-Server. MariaDB is not supported.

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: xtrabackup }

When installing from Ansible Galaxy:

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: webplates.xtrabackup }

License

MIT