community / community.general / 1.3.14 / module / archive Creates a compressed archive of one or more files or trees Authors: Ben Doherty (@bendoh)community.general.archive (1.3.14) — module
Install with ansible-galaxy collection install community.general:==1.3.14
collections: - name: community.general version: 1.3.14
Creates or extends an archive.
The source and archive are on the remote host, and the archive I(is not) copied to the local host.
Source files can be deleted after archival by specifying I(remove=True).
- name: Compress directory /path/to/foo/ into /path/to/foo.tgz community.general.archive: path: /path/to/foo dest: /path/to/foo.tgz
- name: Compress regular file /path/to/foo into /path/to/foo.gz and remove it community.general.archive: path: /path/to/foo remove: yes
- name: Create a zip archive of /path/to/foo community.general.archive: path: /path/to/foo format: zip
- name: Create a bz2 archive of multiple files, rooted at /path community.general.archive: path: - /path/to/foo - /path/wong/foo dest: /path/file.tar.bz2 format: bz2
- name: Create a bz2 archive of a globbed path, while excluding specific dirnames community.general.archive: path: - /path/to/foo/* dest: /path/file.tar.bz2 exclude_path: - /path/to/foo/bar - /path/to/foo/baz format: bz2
- name: Create a bz2 archive of a globbed path, while excluding a glob of dirnames community.general.archive: path: - /path/to/foo/* dest: /path/file.tar.bz2 exclude_path: - /path/to/foo/ba* format: bz2
- name: Use gzip to compress a single archive (i.e don't archive it first with tar) community.general.archive: path: /path/to/foo/single.file dest: /path/file.gz format: gz
- name: Create a tar.gz archive of a single file. community.general.archive: path: /path/to/foo/single.file dest: /path/file.tar.gz format: gz force_archive: true
dest: description: - The file name of the destination archive. The parent directory must exists on the remote host. - This is required when C(path) refers to multiple files by either specifying a glob, a directory or multiple paths in a list. - If the destination archive already exists, it will be truncated and overwritten. type: path mode: description: - The permissions the resulting filesystem object should have. - For those used to I(/usr/bin/chmod) remember that modes are actually octal numbers. You must give Ansible enough information to parse them correctly. For consistent results, quote octal numbers (for example, V('644') or V('1777')) so Ansible receives a string and can do its own conversion from string into number. Adding a leading zero (for example, V(0755)) works sometimes, but can fail in loops and some other circumstances. - Giving Ansible a number without following either of these rules will end up with a decimal number which will have unexpected results. - As of Ansible 1.8, the mode may be specified as a symbolic mode (for example, V(u+rwx) or V(u=rw,g=r,o=r)). - If O(mode) is not specified and the destination filesystem object B(does not) exist, the default C(umask) on the system will be used when setting the mode for the newly created filesystem object. - If O(mode) is not specified and the destination filesystem object B(does) exist, the mode of the existing filesystem object will be used. - Specifying O(mode) is the best way to ensure filesystem objects are created with the correct permissions. See CVE-2020-1736 for further details. type: raw path: description: - Remote absolute path, glob, or list of paths or globs for the file or files to compress or archive. elements: path required: true type: list group: description: - Name of the group that should own the filesystem object, as would be fed to I(chown). - When left unspecified, it uses the current group of the current user unless you are root, in which case it can preserve the previous ownership. type: str owner: description: - Name of the user that should own the filesystem object, as would be fed to I(chown). - When left unspecified, it uses the current user unless you are root, in which case it can preserve the previous ownership. - Specifying a numeric username will be assumed to be a user ID and not a username. Avoid numeric usernames to avoid this confusion. type: str format: choices: - bz2 - gz - tar - xz - zip default: gz description: - The type of compression to use. - Support for xz was added in Ansible 2.5. type: str remove: default: false description: - Remove any added source files and trees after adding to archive. type: bool serole: description: - The role part of the SELinux filesystem object context. - When set to V(_default), it will use the C(role) portion of the policy if available. type: str setype: description: - The type part of the SELinux filesystem object context. - When set to V(_default), it will use the C(type) portion of the policy if available. type: str seuser: description: - The user part of the SELinux filesystem object context. - By default it uses the V(system) policy, where applicable. - When set to V(_default), it will use the C(user) portion of the policy if available. type: str selevel: description: - The level part of the SELinux filesystem object context. - This is the MLS/MCS attribute, sometimes known as the C(range). - When set to V(_default), it will use the C(level) portion of the policy if available. type: str attributes: aliases: - attr description: - The attributes the resulting filesystem object should have. - To get supported flags look at the man page for I(chattr) on the target system. - This string should contain the attributes in the same order as the one displayed by I(lsattr). - The C(=) operator is assumed as default, otherwise C(+) or C(-) operators need to be included in the string. type: str version_added: '2.3' version_added_collection: ansible.builtin exclude_path: description: - Remote absolute path, glob, or list of paths or globs for the file or files to exclude from I(path) list and glob expansion. elements: path type: list force_archive: default: false description: - Allows you to force the module to treat this as an archive even if only a single file is specified. - By default when a single file is specified it is compressed only (not archived). - Enable this if you want to use M(ansible.builtin.unarchive) on an archive of a single file created with this module. type: bool unsafe_writes: default: false description: - Influence when to use atomic operation to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target filesystem object. - By default this module uses atomic operations to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target filesystem objects, but sometimes systems are configured or just broken in ways that prevent this. One example is docker mounted filesystem objects, which cannot be updated atomically from inside the container and can only be written in an unsafe manner. - This option allows Ansible to fall back to unsafe methods of updating filesystem objects when atomic operations fail (however, it doesn't force Ansible to perform unsafe writes). - IMPORTANT! Unsafe writes are subject to race conditions and can lead to data corruption. type: bool version_added: '2.2' version_added_collection: ansible.builtin
archived: description: Any files that were compressed or added to the archive. returned: success type: list arcroot: description: The archive root. returned: always type: str expanded_exclude_paths: description: The list of matching exclude paths from the exclude_path argument. returned: always type: list expanded_paths: description: The list of matching paths from paths argument. returned: always type: list missing: description: Any files that were missing from the source. returned: success type: list state: description: The current state of the archived file. If 'absent', then no source files were found and the archive does not exist. If 'compress', then the file source file is in the compressed state. If 'archive', then the source file or paths are currently archived. If 'incomplete', then an archive was created, but not all source paths were found. returned: always type: str