excludes not work as expected with find module in ansible playbook

Nithin Subbaraj

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Jan 13, 2021, 9:58:11 AM1/13/21

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I have created an ansible playbook which finds files older than 7 days and zips the files.

Also trying to exclude files from particular directory but not able to find.

I am not able to the exclude the files under sub directory ,it is also getting zipped
I am able to successfully exclude the already zipped files but not a sub directory under the path

using excludes in find module for compressing files older than 7 days

Stefan Hornburg (Racke)

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Jan 13, 2021, 10:08:41 AM1/13/21

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Please share your playbook.

Regards
Racke

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Nithin Subbaraj

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Jan 13, 2021, 10:20:31 AM1/13/21

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Hi Racke,

Please find the below playbook details the username and path are test paths

---
- name: Ansible archive Examples
   hosts: all
   tasks:

    - name : Find files ending with extensions
      become: true
      find:
       paths:
       - /home/nsubbaraj/replicate/vol/gunnsc01/prod/scoreout
       recurse: yes
       file_type: any
       excludes:
       - '*.gz'
       - /home/nsubbaraj/replicate/vol/gunnsc01/prod/scoreout/delete
       depth: 4
       age: 7d
       age_stamp: mtime
      register: output

    - name: archive the files
      become: yes
      archive:
        remove: yes
        path: "{{ item.path }}"
        dest: "{{ item.path }}-{{ansible_date_time.date.replace('-','')}}.gz"
        format: zip
      with_items: "{{ output.files }}"

##############################

I am able to exclude the gzip files but not the delete directory files under /home/nsubbaraj/replicate/vol/gunnsc01/prod/scoreout/

Stefan Hornburg (Racke)

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Jan 13, 2021, 10:30:38 AM1/13/21

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I think the values for "excludes" need to be relative to the path(s), so try "delete"
instead of "/home/nsubbaraj/replicate/vol/gunnsc01/prod/scoreout/delete".

Regards
Racke

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> > I have created an ansible playbook which finds files older than 7 days and zips the files.
> > Also trying to exclude files from particular directory but not able to find.
> >
> > I am not able to the exclude the files under sub directory ,it is also getting zipped
> > I am able to successfully exclude the already zipped files but not a sub directory under the path
> >
> > using excludes in find module for compressing files older than 7 days
>
> Please share your playbook.
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Nithin Subbaraj

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Jan 13, 2021, 10:38:37 AM1/13/21

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Thanks ,I had tried already and tried again but no luck .

I tried with

################

excludes:
       - '*.gz'
       - 'delete'

excludes:
       - '*.gz'
       - delete

excludes:
- '*.gz'
- "delete"

################

I also checked with other subdirectory other than directory delete if it could clash with keyword like nitest but still not excluding it