Useful to control when a cron job runs to avoid all servers backing up

at the same time. Also, specifying the backupninja command allows for
wrapping it in other commands (e.g. to execute it from within a
ssh-agent session so that authentication can happen via the
monkeysphere).

diff --git a/manifests/config.pp b/manifests/config.pp
index 34e3a0e4c9cd19da7fc3db71c63d1a44ec7e57f5..89105b33ff380c25523b09bdcdfa2b916422d7f4 100644 (file)
--- a/manifests/config.pp
+++ b/manifests/config.pp
@@ -18,3 +18,21 @@ define backupninja::config(
     mode => 0644
   }
 }
+
+# Write the backupninja cron job, allowing you to specify an alternate backupninja
+# command (if you want to wrap it in any other commands, e.g. to allow it to use
+# the monkeysphere for authentication), or a different schedule to run it on.
+define backupninja::cron(
+  $backupninja_cmd = '/usr/sbin/backupninja',
+  $backupninja_test_cmd = $backupninja_cmd,
+  $cronfile = "/etc/cron.d/backupninja",
+  $min = "0", $hour = "*", $dom = "*", $month = "*",
+  $dow = "*")
+{
+  file { $cronfile:
+    content => template('backupninja/backupninja.cron.erb'),
+    owner => root,
+    group => root,
+    mode => 0644
+  }
+}

diff --git a/templates/backupninja.cron.erb b/templates/backupninja.cron.erb
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..ec392ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/backupninja.cron.erb
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# /etc/cron.d/backupninja -- cron tab entry for package backupninja
+
+PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
+
+# # run backupninja 
+<%= min %> <%= hour %> <%= dom %> <%= month %> <%= dow %> root if [ -x <%= backupninja_test_cmd %> ]; then <%= backupninja_cmd %>; fi