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puppetlabs-rsync

puppetlabs-rsync manages rsync clients, repositories, and servers as well as providing defines to easily grab data via rsync.

Class: rsync

Manage rsync package

Parameters:

$package_ensure - any of the valid values for the package resource: present, absent, purged, held, latest
$manage_package - setting this to false stops the rsync package resource from being managed

Sample Usage:

class { 'rsync': package_ensure => 'latest' }

Definition: rsync::get

get files via rsync

Parameters:

$source     - source to copy from
$path       - path to copy to, defaults to $name
$user       - username on remote system
$purge      - if set, rsync will use '--delete'
$recursive  - if set, rsync will use '-r'
$links      - if set, rsync will use '--links'
$hardlinks  - if set, rsync will use '--hard-links'
$copylinks  - if set, rsync will use '--copy-links'
$times      - if set, rsync will use '--times'
$include    - string (or array) to be included
$exclude    - string (or array) to be excluded
$keyfile    - ssh key used to connect to remote host
$timeout    - timeout in seconds, defaults to 900
$execuser   - user to run the command (passed to exec)
$options    - default options to pass to rsync (-a)
$chown      - USER:GROUP simple username/groupname mapping
$onlyif     - condition to run the rsync command

Actions:

get files via rsync

Requires:

$source must be set

Sample Usage:

# get file 'foo' via rsync
rsync::get { '/foo':
  source  => "rsync://${rsyncServer}/repo/foo/",
  require => File['/foo'],
}

Definition: rsync::put

put files via rsync

Parameters:

$source  - source to copy from
$path    - path to copy to, defaults to $name
$user    - username on remote system
$purge   - if set, rsync will use '--delete'
$include - string (or array) to be included
$exclude - string (or array) to be excluded
$keyfile - path to ssh key used to connect to remote host, defaults to /home/${user}/.ssh/id_rsa
$timeout - timeout in seconds, defaults to 900
$options - default options to pass to rsync (-a)

Actions:

put files via rsync

Requires:

$source must be set

Sample Usage:

rsync::put { '${rsyncDestHost}:/repo/foo':
  user    => 'user',
  source  => "/repo/foo/",
}

Definition: rsync::server::module

sets up a rsync server

Parameters:

$path            - path to data
$comment         - rsync comment
$motd            - file containing motd info
$read_only       - yes||no, defaults to yes
$write_only      - yes||no, defaults to no
$list            - yes||no, defaults to no
$uid             - uid of rsync server, defaults to 0
$gid             - gid of rsync server, defaults to 0
$incoming_chmod  - incoming file mode, defaults to 644
$outgoing_chmod  - outgoing file mode, defaults to 644
$max_connections - maximum number of simultaneous connections allowed, defaults to 0
$lock_file       - file used to support the max connections parameter, defaults to /var/run/rsyncd.lock only needed if max_connections > 0
$secrets_file    - path to the file that contains the username:password pairs used for authenticating this module
$auth_users      - list of usernames that will be allowed to connect to this module (must be undef or an array)
$hosts_allow     - list of patterns allowed to connect to this module (man 5 rsyncd.conf for details, must be undef or an array)
$hosts_deny      - list of patterns allowed to connect to this module (man 5 rsyncd.conf for details, must be undef or an array)
$transfer_logging - parameter enables per-file logging of downloads and uploads in a format somewhat similar to that used by ftp daemons.
$log_format       - This parameter allows you to specify the format used for logging file transfers when transfer logging is enabled. See the rsyncd.conf documentation for more details.
$refuse_options  - list of rsync command line options that will be refused by your rsync daemon.

Actions:

sets up an rsync server

Requires:

$path must be set

Sample Usage:

# setup default rsync repository
rsync::server::module{ 'repo':
  path    => $base,
  require => File[$base],
}

To disable default values for incoming_chmod and outgoing_chmod, and do not add empty values to the resulting config, set both values to false

rsync::server::module { 'repo':
  path           => $base,
  incoming_chmod => false,
  outgoing_chmod => false,
  require        => File[$base],
}