purestorage.flasharray.purefa_dirsnap – Manage FlashArray File System Directory Snapshots

Note

This plugin is part of the purestorage.flasharray collection (version 1.11.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install purestorage.flasharray.

To use it in a playbook, specify: purestorage.flasharray.purefa_dirsnap.

New in version 1.9.0: of purestorage.flasharray

Synopsis

Create/Delete FlashArray File System directory snapshots
A full snapshot name is constructed in the form of DIR.CLIENT_NAME.SUFFIX where DIR is the managed directory name, CLIENT_NAME is the client name, and SUFFIX is the suffix.
The client visible snapshot name is CLIENT_NAME.SUFFIX.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

python >= 2.7
purestorage >= 1.19
py-pure-client >= 1.6.0
netaddr
requests

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
api_token string		FlashArray API token for admin privileged user.
client string / required		The client name portion of the client visible snapshot name
eradicate boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Define whether to eradicate the snapshot on delete or leave in trash
fa_url string		FlashArray management IPv4 address or Hostname.
filesystem string / required		Name of the filesystem the directory links to.
keep_for integer	Default: 0	Retention period, after which snapshots will be eradicated Specify in seconds. Range 300 - 31536000 (5 minutes to 1 year) Set to 0 for no retention period. If not specified on create will default to 0 (no retention period)
name string / required		Name of the directory to snapshot
state string	Choices: absent present ←	Define whether the directory snapshot should exist or not.
suffix string		Snapshot suffix to use

Notes

Note

This module requires the purestorage and py-pure-client Python libraries
Additional Python librarues may be required for specific modules.
You must set PUREFA_URL and PUREFA_API environment variables if fa_url and api_token arguments are not passed to the module directly

Examples

- name: Create a snapshot direcotry foo in filesysten bar for client test with suffix test
  purefa_dirsnap:
    name: foo
    filesystem: bar
    client: test
    suffix: test
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

- name: Update retention time for a snapshot foo:bar.client.test
  purefa_dirsnap:
    name: foo
    filesystem: bar
    client: client
    suffix: test
    keep_for: 300 # 5 minutes
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

- name: Delete snapshot foo:bar.client.test
  purefa_dirsnap:
    name: foo
    filesystem: bar
    client: client
    suffix: test
    state: absent
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

- name: Recover deleted snapshot foo:bar.client.test
  purefa_dirsnap:
    name: foo
    filesystem: bar
    client: client
    suffix: test
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

- name: Delete and eradicate snapshot foo:bar.client.test
  purefa_dirsnap:
    name: foo
    filesystem: bar
    client: client
    suffix: test
    state: absent
    eradicate: true
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

- name: Eradicate deleted snapshot foo:bar.client.test
  purefa_dirsnap:
    name: foo
    filesystem: bar
    client: client
    suffix: test
    eradicate: true
    state: absent
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

Authors

Pure Storage Ansible Team (@sdodsley) <pure-ansible-team@purestorage.com>

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/purestorage/flasharray/purefa_dirsnap_module.html

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