Setting up automated encrypted backups in AWS S3

Backups are always something that most of us feel should be done, but they seem quite a chore. Over the years, people have done extensive work to ensure we can have simple enough ways to back up and restore our data. 

In today's day and age, a great backup solution/software should be able to do the following:

The following code snippet is to set up duply for encrypted automated backups from the server to AWS S3:

- name: installing duply
  apt:
    name: "{{ item }}"
    update_cache: yes
    state: present
  
  with_items:
    - python-boto
    - duply

- name: check if we already have backup directory
  stat:
    path: "/root/.duply/{{ new_backup_name }}"
  register: duply_dir_stats

- name: create backup directories
  shell: duply {{ new_backup_name }} create
  when: duply_dir_stats.stat.exists == False

- name: update the duply configuration
  template:
    src: "{{ item.src }}"
    dest: "{{ item.dest }}"
  
  with_items:
    - { src: conf.j2, dest: /root/.duply/{{ new_backup_name }}/conf }
    - { src: exclude.j2, dest: /root/.duply/{{ new_backup_name }}/exclude }

- name: create cron job for automated backups
  template:
    src: duply-backup.j2
    dest: /etc/cron.hourly/duply-backup