Thanks, Michael.   It did seem like a kind of evolutionary dead-end. :)

-T

On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote:

> the backup flag has some issues.
>
> We have been wanting to smite the "backup" feature of Ansible for a long
> time because it doesn't make remote backups.
>
> I suspect what is going to happen is the backup feature will not be
> enhanced and it will eventually be repurposed to work differently.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Tennis Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I really like the idea behind the "assemble" module.  But what I cannot
>> figure out is a good way to recover the backup file if a backup is created.
>>
>>
>> For example, if I do
>>
>> assemble: src=/somedir/foo  dest=/some/other/dir/bar backup=yes
>>
>> If I need to reverse the process and find and recover bar.<timestamp>,
>> what then?  Is there a preferred way to do that?
>>
>> TIA,
>> -T
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