Another rundeck blog post. In the latest post we talked about how to move rundeck from one server to another, and we found out there are quite a lot of files to handle (ssh key files, rundeck’s configuration, project definitions, job definitions…). Well, with that info, and with the intention of simplify backup tasks, I’ve written a shell-script to manage rundeck backups, backup and recovery. You can find it at github: https://github.com/ersiko/rundeck-backup and right here in in the page project

It works plain simple, you just need to backup like this

[[email protected] ~]# ./rundeck-backup.sh backup rundeck.tar.gz
OK - backup finished successfully using /root/rundeck-backup.tar.gz


If we don’t type the file name, the backup will be written with today’s data:

[[email protected] ~]# ./rundeck-backup.sh backup
OK - backup finished successfully using /root/rundeck-backup-20130327.tar.gz


And for the recovery, as easy as:

[[email protected] ~]# ./rundeck-backup.sh restore
Rundeck service is not running, so jobs can't be restored. Do you want to start rundeck? (y/N) y
Starting rundeckd: [ DONE ]
OK - restore finished successfully using /root/rundeck-backup-20130327.tar.gz


There are also other options, to cover all scenarios I’ve thought of:

[[email protected] ~]# ./rundeck-backup.sh -h
rundeck_backup - v1.00
Copyleft (c) 2013 Tomàs Núñez Lirola under GPL License
This script deals with rundeck backup/recovery.

Usage: ./rundeck-backup.sh [OPTIONS...] {backup|restore} [backup_file] | -h --help

Options:
-h | --help
Print detailed help
--exclude-config
Don't backup / restore config files
--exclude-projects
Don't backup / restore project definitions
--exclude-keys
Don't backup / restore ssh key files
--exclude-jobs
Don't backup / restore job definitions
--exclude-hosts
Don't backup / restore .ssh/known_hosts file
--include-logs
Include execution logs in the backup / restore procedure (they are excluded by default)
-c | --configdir
Change default rundeck config directory (/etc/rundeck)
-u | --user
Change default rundeck user (rundeck)
-s | --service

I've done my best (and the best I felt like :P), so there is probably room for improvements. I long for critics and suggestions to improve it!

Thank you for your attention