Hi Joe,
you could add a task
- name: Get current timestamp
local_action: command bash -c "date +%Y-%m-%d.%H%M"
register: now
run_once: true
(or something similar adapted to your local environment) before your
dump task and then use {{ now }} in the next tasks to always get the
same timestamp.
Best,
Felix
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 08:45:53 -0700 (PDT)
Joe Louthan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In my deployments, I tend to do db backups and dump them into
> filenames containing a timestamp like so:
>
> mysqldump dbname | gzip -9c > ~/dbname.`date +%Y-%m-%d.%H%M`.sql.gz ;
> ls -la ~/ | grep `date +%Y-%m-%d`
>
> As you can see, when the dump is done, I want to see the resulting
> file just to eyeball it and make everything looks right.
>
> (To answer future questions: we date time stamp our backup files so
> that we can keep them for an extended period of time.)
>
> I would like to write something like this:
>
> - hosts: dbserver
> remote_user: jlouthan
> tasks:
> - name: Backup Prod Database
> shell: mysqldump dbdump | gzip -9c > ~jlouthan/dbdump.`date
> +%Y-%m-%d`.sql.gz
> become: yes
> become_method: sudo
>
> - name: Check to see if the dbdump has been successfully created
> wait_for: path=~jlouthan/dbdump.`date +%Y-%m-%d`.sql.gz
>
>
> Is there any chance that Ansible would be able to pick up on
> backticks or is there a better way?
>
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