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Saqib Ali
Saqib Ali

Reputation: 12585

How to copy a directory from salt minion to master while on master?

Assuming I am on the salt-master, and assuming that I know the name of a specific salt minion my-minion, How can I copy a specific directory /my-directory from the salt-minion to the master?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 10854

Answers (1)

mootmoot
mootmoot

Reputation: 13176

You can do it through salt.modules.cp.push. However, there is no correspondence salt.states to do this.

Push a file from the minion up to the master, the file will be saved to the salt master in the master's minion files cachedir (defaults to /var/cache/salt/master/minions/minion-id/files)

Since this feature allows a minion to push a file up to the master server it is disabled by default for security purposes. To enable, set file_recv to True in the master configuration file, and restart the master.

(update) some other options are suggested here Data sharing (grains/values/files) between minions and salt-master #27156

khaije1 commented on Apr 22

Though certainly not an encouraged practice, i've (1) transfered data from minion to master using only the event bus.

There are some other possibilities I haven't explored, (2) like having the minion write directly to an external pillar, or ,(3)writing the data locally on the minion to a location/system that will be cached on the master.

Upvotes: 7

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