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/ 

On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 at 20:38:41 UTC+5:30 [email protected] wrote:

> On 1/13/21 3:58 PM, Nithin Subbaraj wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
>
> Regards
> Racke
>
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