How to restore from backup for synchronize module if service fails to start

[Vikram Kone]

Hi,

I'm new to ansible, so looking for some pointers or samples.

I have a directory of monit conf files on my ansible server that I want to send to remote hosts using synchronize module.

Once I synchronize the conf directory, I want to reload monit. If monit fails to start due to syntax errors in the conf files, then I want to restore the original conf files that are working before from backup.

I couldn't figure out how to do this last step. any pointers?

This is what I have so far

---

- hosts: remote_hosts

  gather_facts: false

  tasks:

   - name: rsync monit configruation files

     synchronize: src=/home/foo/conf/ dest=/opt/monit/conf/ backup=yes

     notify: reload monit

  handlers:

    - name: reload monit

      service: name=monit state=reloaded