Thanks for the insightful answer. I'm definitely going to try this and will write here how it goes
On Thursday, 22 May 2014 13:04:59 UTC, ams wrote: > > At 2014-05-22 05:21:35 -0700, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > > > So I made an attempt to loop over each group: > > I'm sorry, my earlier answer was short-sighted. I started thinking about > loops because your Subject said "loop", but you were right to not use an > Ansible loop in the first place—at least not over groups/hosts. > > As I understand it, trying to write a single task that loops over groups > and hosts isn't the way to do things in Ansible. One should write a task > that fetches the desired files, and run it against the desired hosts by > using the existing host-selection mechanism, as described in > http://docs.ansible.com/intro_patterns.html > > So you could do something like: > > - name: fetch files from the server > fetch: src={{ item }} > dest=/backup/{{ group_names[0] }}/{{ inventory_hostname }}/{{ item > | basename }} > with_items: > - /root/.bash_profile > - /some/other/file > > Note that group_names is a list variable that contains the name of all > groups that the current host is in. If your hosts aren't in multiple > groups, this should not matter to you. If they are, then the backups > will be stored only in the directory of the first group by this task. > > Hope this helps. > > -- ams > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/20f1e71e-dd1b-416d-8215-e77ea669fabf%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
