archive

Collection: community.general

Full Name: parallax.community.general.archive

Aliases: community.general.archive, archive

Synopsis

Manage archive

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
path	string	yes		Remote absolute path, glob, or list of paths or globs for the files to compress or archive
dest	string			The file name of the destination archive
format	string		`gz`	The type of compression to use Choices: `gz`, `bz2`, `zip`, `tar`, `xz`
remove	bool		`false`	Remove source files after archiving
force_archive	bool		`false`	Force archiving even if only a single file is specified
exclude_path	string			Paths or globs to exclude from the archive
mode	string			Permissions for the resulting archive file
owner	string			Name of the user that should own the archive file
group	string			Name of the group that should own the archive file

- name: Example archive task
  archive:
    path: <your_path>