This module contains the general backup conventions and defintions used by the Sarava Group according to http://padrao.sarava.org/trac/wiki/Backups/Convencoes It relies on Riseup Labs' Backupninja module, https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/show/module-backupninja What is basically do is to help the creation of standardized definitions for rdiff-backup and duplicity like these: # local encrypted/signed backup backup::duplicity { "localhost": encryptkey => "$key_id", password => "$key_password", } # remote backup of previously encrypted/signed backup backup::rdiff { "$node_name": port => "$port", } The first definition will keep local encrypted/signed backups using duplicity at /var/backups/duplicity. The second definition will push the local /var/backups/duplicity to a remote destination using rdiff-backup over ssh. We choose this two stage approach as the experience showed that it's more reliable and fast than to let duplicity do all the job. Note that this is a simple module that don't manages backup users or keys by itself: you should do that manually or use another puppet module such as backupninja::server.