community.general.lbu – Local Backup Utility for Alpine Linux

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.lbu.

New in version 0.2.0: of community.general

Synopsis

  • Manage Local Backup Utility of Alpine Linux in run-from-RAM mode

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
commit
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Control whether to commit changed files.
exclude
list / elements=string
List of paths to exclude.
include
list / elements=string
List of paths to include.

Examples

# Commit changed files (if any)
- name: Commit
  community.general.lbu:
    commit: true

# Exclude path and commit
- name: Exclude directory
  community.general.lbu:
    commit: true
    exclude:
    - /etc/opt

# Include paths without committing
- name: Include file and directory
  community.general.lbu:
    include:
    - /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
    - /var/lib/misc

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
msg
string
on failure
Error message


Authors

  • Kaarle Ritvanen (@kunkku)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/lbu_module.html