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When I copy a file with ansible it backups file(wrote backup=yes). My question is about filename that is default created by ansible.
config.xml.6634.2018-05-22@17:52:12~
What does 6634 means in this filename?
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recurse. boolean. added in 1.1 of ansible.builtin. Recursively set the specified file attributes on directory contents. This applies only when state is set to directory .
remote_src. boolean. added in 2.0 of ansible.builtin. Influence whether src needs to be transferred or already is present remotely. If no , it will search for src on the controller node.
If you want to copy a file from an Ansible Control Master to remote hosts, the COPY (scp) module would be just fine.
To be on the same page, let me explain what I’m referring to: the scope of Ansible backups is any file copied or created from a template in Ansible playbook. So we’re not talking about magical backups of Ansible playbooks or Ansible config files, just the files deployed by Ansible in a certain way.
One important thing to do when deploying configuration files with Ansible is to always keep backups, that’s what I’m going to document today. To be on the same page, let me explain what I’m referring to: the scope of Ansible backups is any file copied or created from a template in Ansible playbook.
You can use the fetch module to copy files from the remote source to local on the other hand. We will be seeing various examples of Ansible copy in this article. we have one more article on Ansible copy for you to read and explore.
Backup and restore PostgreSQL databases with Ansible There are multiple ways to backup and restore a database. With PostgreSQL we can either use SQL dumps or Continuous Archiving and Point-in-Time Recovery. This post is about the simple and straighforward SQL dumps, automated using Ansible.
It's the process ID of the remote Ansible process, as can be seen here in the source code:
ext = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d@%H:%M:%S~", time.localtime(time.time()))
backupdest = '%s.%s.%s' % (fn, os.getpid(), ext)
^^^^^^^^^^^
This added in this commit (Ansible 2.2.0.0) to improve the odds that the generated filename is unique, probably in case two Ansible processes try to overwrite the same file within the same second.
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