Archiving user home directories with a var_files

[Kenady Inampudi]

Archiving user home directories with external var file

user.yml
---
user:
  - user1
  - user2

archive_home_dir.yml
---
- hosts: all
  tasks:
     - archive:
          path: /home/{{ user }}
          dest: /home/archive/{{ user }}.tar.gz
          format: gz
ansible-playbook archive_home_dir.yml -e @user.yml

i get
-rw-r--r--    1 root     system           88 Nov 01 11:58 [u'user1', u'user2'].tar.gz

i was expecting
-rw-r--r--    1 root     system           88 Nov 01 11:58 user1.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     system           88 Nov 01 11:58 user2.tar.gz

[Andrew Latham]

Kenady,

I think you are looking to loop[1] the users correct?

aka

loop: "{{ users }}"

1. https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_loops.html

On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 10:31 AM Kenady Inampudi <ken...@cis-in.com> wrote:

Archiving user home directories

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[Kenady Inampudi]

even with   loop: "{{ users }}"  there is no difference 

archive_home_dir.yml
---
- hosts: all
  tasks:
     - archive:
          path: /home/{{ user }}
          dest: /home/archive/{{ user }}.tar.gz
          format: gz

       loop: "{{ users }}"

it still creates 

-rw-r--r--    1 root     system           88 Nov 01 13:37 [u'user1', u'user2'].tar.gz

ansible-playbook -i test_host archive_home_dir.yml -e @users.yml

PLAY [all] ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [archive] ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [server1] => (item=user1)
ok: [server1] => (item=user2)
changed: [server2] => (item=user1)
ok: [server2] => (item=user2)
changed: [server3] => (item=user1)
ok: [server3] => (item=user2)

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
server1               : ok=1    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0
server2                : ok=1    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0
server3                : ok=1    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 01/11/2022 18:42, Kenady Inampudi wrote:
> even with loop: "{{ users }}"  there is no difference
>

I think you need to loop over {{ user }} and in path/dest use {{ item }}, the default loop variable.

Regards

        Racke

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