Before the `burp` tool gained the `-Q` option, the only way to disable
the progress counter was through the configuration file. Since we do
not want any output from automatic backups (except of course
catastrophic failures), since it would end up being e-mailed by cron,
the progress counter had to be disabled globally. This meant that
on-demand runs on a terminal could not have a progress counter, which
was pretty disappointing.
Now that `burp` has `-Q`, this is no longer the case. Scheduled backups
can run with `-Q`, but ad-hoc runs can omit it to get a progress
counter.
Newer versions of the BURP client require `status_port` to be set. This
commit updates the `burp.conf.j2` template to more closely match the
default configuration shipped with the *burp* package, including setting
this new value.
The *burp-client* role installs and configures a BURP client. It should
support RHEL/CentOS/Fedora and Gentoo.
To manage the client password and other server-mandated configuration,
the role uses Ansible's delegation feature to generate a configuration
file in the "clientconfdir" on the BURP server.
An hourly cron task is scheduled that runs `burp -a t` every hour. This
allows the server to configure backup timebands and intervals.
Dustin