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| author | Sam Thursfield <sam.thursfield@codethink.co.uk> | 2015-05-20 13:27:38 +0100 |
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| committer | Baserock Gerrit <gerrit@baserock.org> | 2015-05-22 11:26:02 +0000 |
| commit | 34ce43225daac688e94960e5ecbf9f9c79208963 (patch) | |
| tree | 3d4fe95d9fe831ca3df31722e0f043567c0b9be3 /baserock_backup | |
| parent | d84c2ad127e12a43b6095db8a41678f8a1cc3662 (diff) | |
| download | infrastructure-34ce43225daac688e94960e5ecbf9f9c79208963.tar.gz | |
baserock_backup: Make backups run automatically
This should have happened already, but I forgot that 'crond' won't be
running automatically. The backup VM hosted at Codethink was powered off
and back on at some point, backups didn't run after that point.
Change-Id: I10f6b73c2947631001040099074f373a9ea5464e
Diffstat (limited to 'baserock_backup')
| -rw-r--r-- | baserock_backup/crond.service | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | baserock_backup/instance-config.yml | 9 |
2 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/baserock_backup/crond.service b/baserock_backup/crond.service new file mode 100644 index 00000000..07efb807 --- /dev/null +++ b/baserock_backup/crond.service @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +# Busybox Cron is used to run the 'baserock-backup' script. +# +# It'd be better to run that script using a systemd timer unit, but the +# script didn't work when run by systemd, when I last tested it. Seems like +# it does something clever to stdin/stdout which breaks the clever thing +# baserock-backup does with rsync. + +[Unit] +Description=Busybox Cron daemon +Requires=local-fs.target +After=local-fs.target + +[Service] +Type=simple +ExecStart=/usr/sbin/crond -f + +[Install] +WantedBy=multi-user.target diff --git a/baserock_backup/instance-config.yml b/baserock_backup/instance-config.yml index 327b84e9..8ccbb584 100644 --- a/baserock_backup/instance-config.yml +++ b/baserock_backup/instance-config.yml @@ -27,3 +27,12 @@ job: /home/backup/backup.sh name: baserock.org data backup user: backup + + # As the .service file says, running the backup script via 'cron' is + # a workaround for what may be a bug in systemd. I don't have the energy + # to investigate the problem right now. + - name: .service file for Busybox 'cron' daemon + copy: src=crond.service dest=/etc/systemd/system mode=644 + + - name: service for Busybox 'cron' daemon + service: name=crond enabled=yes state=started |