I've worked around it several ways: - exclude specific extensions: *~ (also works for editor backups) - include specific extensions: Include *.conf - make the backups hidden: .backupfile
Also there might be an update in the works for making backups live on the 'master' not on the target machines. Currently you can simulate this with a fetch + file/absent set of tasks. On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Adam Heath <[email protected]> wrote: > Shouldn't such programs have a filter exclude setting? dpkg and rpm will > both place temp files into .d style folders, while installing a package. I > can't speak as to what temp extension rpm uses, but dpkg will create a > $file.dpkg-new or $file.dpkg-old in such a folder. Plus, vim creates > .$file.swp. So, it seems that these other programs will already need to > have a way to exclude those files, and ansible should(or might already be) > do something similar. > > On 10/14/2014 03:50 AM, Josef Špak wrote: >> >> I've just been auditing things and found that sometimes we used the >> template module with backups=yes even though it was configuring e.g. >> logrotate stuff in /etc/logrotate.d/ >> >> However, programs like logrotate may/will read all files in the directory, >> including the backups. >> >> So perhaps this would be a useful tip. >> >> I was also wondering - did anyone get burned by this? >> >> Josef >> -- >> 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] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/4e462ee4-1802-44d0-905c-a8c04d4801d3%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/4e462ee4-1802-44d0-905c-a8c04d4801d3%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > 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/543D50B0.1010402%40brainfood.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Brian Coca Stultorum infinitus est numerus 0110000101110010011001010110111000100111011101000010000001111001011011110111010100100000011100110110110101100001011100100111010000100001 Pedo mellon a minno -- 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/CADn%2BHswWoSD%3D188PQap6z1Ed3yoA0c9f0qrYvxcXqogt0iAsEg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
