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Ashar
Ashar

Reputation: 3045

Archive multiple folders under a single folder using Ansible

I'm using the below ansible-playbook code to archive multiple folders under IBM folder.

Below is my absolute path Directory structure:

/app
   |-- /IBM
          |--/test
          |--/log
          |--/common
          |--/api
          |--/<unknown folders>

The number of folders and files under IBM folder is unknown hence it seems impossible to specify all the files / folders under IBM under exclude_path attribute.

I wish to build an archive (gz) that has only IBM folder containing only two folders i.e common and api folders while ignoring the rest of the folders and files.

Thus, I wrote the below playbook:

- name: Creating the archive
  archive:
    path: 
    - /was/IBM/common
    - /was/IBM/api
    dest: /var/backup/mysetup.tar.gz
    exclude_path:
    - /was/IBM/common/log
    - /was/IBM/api/tmp
    format: gz

This gives me the archive file mysetup.tar.gz.

I want the mysetup.tar.gz file to have a folder called IBM which should have the two folders common and api. Thus, I'm expecting the below in the mysetup.tar.gz no matter what other files are under the IBM folder.

IBM
  |--/common
  |--/api

But, the mysetup.tar.gz does not have IBM folder but has common and api folders.

I was not specific hence my question did not get answered here: How to archive multiple folders under one folder using Ansible

Can you please guide me as to how I can get the archive to have both the folders inside the IBM folder inside the mysetup.tar.gz?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1980

Answers (1)

Moon
Moon

Reputation: 3037

Requirement you have can't be achieved straight using archive module. Two specific reasons are listed below:

  1. If you specify the path say /app/IBM then the content of the zip file will have the path after IBM something like common/, api/. To get IBM as a root directory inside the tar.gz file, you need to specify path as /app. This brings to the next point about the usage of exclude_path.
  2. exclude_path doesn't work as you would expect. Say, if the path is define as /app and you want to exclude /app/IBM/test, this wouldn't work. exclude_path works only with direct sub folder/file of a defined path (with wildcard) which means that exclusion of /app/IBM/test would work if path defined as /app/IBM/* but that is not what is expected and brings back the previous point. There is already an issue reported on this topic.

So you probably better off using regular tar command using command/shell module.

Upvotes: 1

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