Archive file example download

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Why not? Submit and view feedback for This product This page. View all page feedback. In this article. Required Enter the root folder or file path to add to the archive. Required If selected, the root folder name will be prefixed to file paths within the archive. Otherwise, all file paths will start one level lower. Required Specify the compression scheme used. To create foo. For all tar files including compressed ones , choose tar.

Optionally choose a compression scheme, or choose None to create an uncompressed tar file. Likewise, for the file the default compression and archive type is. Most of the time the purpose of doing the archival process is to save some disk space and storage.

Especially when we are handling the logs and system housekeeping tasks, we would want to remove the old file once the compression is done. So its not necassary that you have to create a tar ball first before trying to compress.

It does not apply to the zip format. Zip does not create the tarball before compressing it. Here is the ansible-playbook with ansible archive module to zip a Single file we have also used the remove parameter to delete the original file once the compress is done.

Here is the ansible-playbook to zip a directory using ansible unarchive module in the zip format. In this example, we are going to use the much powerful and reliable Bzip2 to archive the files, bzip2 is by far the best product amongst others and the resulting archive file size would be small than the other ones so you could save some more disk space. Refer my comparison of all archive formats like bz2 zip gz at the end of this post. Back to the subject, Here is the playbook we are going to use to bzip the file and directory I combined both of the tasks into a Single playbook to save some space.

All we have to change here is the format from the previous example. As usual the directory compression would be a compressed tarball. We saved the little complex and the best for the last and here we have collected few interesting examples as follows. The first two are too self-descriptive we just use the wild card character to select specific files for our archiving process but the third one is a little tricky but great. If you look at it, we have two parameters here.

So far the examples we have seen are about creating a Single Archive file with multiple source files in it. Now we are going to see how to create archive on multiple single files. Something like this. Here is the Ansible playbook which exactly does the same thing but using the Ansible Find module and Ansible Archive module instead of the Shell commands.

In a Summary. An array of symbols representing extraction flags. By default, this properly sets :time which preserves the modification timestamps of files in the archive when writing them to disk.

Should the resource overwrite the destination file contents if they already exist? If set to :auto the date stamp of files within the archive will be compared to those on disk and disk contents will be overwritten if they differ. This may cause unintended consequences if disk date stamps are changed between runs, which will result in the files being overwritten during each client run. Make sure to properly test any change to this property.

Remove the specified number of leading path elements. Pathnames with fewer elements will be silently skipped. Control the phase during which the resource is run on the node. Set to true to run while the resource collection is being built the compile phase. Set to false to run while Chef Infra Client is configuring the node the converge phase. Ruby Type: true, false, :quiet Default Value: false. Continue running a recipe if a resource fails for any reason.