# Ansible copy multiple files to multiple destinations ?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [November 12, 2017, 7:43am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-copy-multiple-files-to-multiple-destinations/26003 "2017-11-12T07:43:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dec6dc/32.png) [@Love](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Love)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2017, 7:43am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-copy-multiple-files-to-multiple-destinations/26003/1 "2017-11-12T07:43:02Z")
We need to be able to copy/push multiple files from multiple sources to multiple destinations on destination servers, I’m having trouble with below code, can anyone suggest the right syntax to update code? I have 3 different files and destination is different for all of them and need this across my inventory, from a syntax standpoint I do not have any issues however, it does not push those files to destination servers. — # Deploy EP7.0 on desired servers - hosts: test remote\_user: deploy become: yes become\_method: sudo connection: ssh gather\_facts: yes tasks: - name: check if maven repo exists on destination server file: path: /opt/dtv/apache-maven-3.5.0/.m2/repository state: directory owner: root group: root mode: 0755 notify: maven repo created handlers: - name: maven repo created copy: src: “{{ item.src }}” dest: “{{ item.dest }}” mode: “{{ item.mode }}” with\_items: - { src: ‘/home/psk/settings.xml’,dest: ‘/opt/dtv/apache-maven-3.5.0/.m2/repository/’,mode: ‘0755’} - “{ src: ‘/etc/ansible/roles/common/files/settings.xml’ , dest: ‘/opt/dtv/apache-maven-3.5.0/conf/’ , mode: ‘0755’}” - “{ src: ‘/etc/ansible/roles/common/files/archetype-catalog.xml’ , dest: ‘/opt/dtv/apache-maven-3.5.0/.m2/repository/’ , mode: ‘0755’}” - debug: var=result ---
**Author:** ![Soniya\_panwar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@Soniya\_panwar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Soniya_panwar)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2017, 5:33am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-copy-multiple-files-to-multiple-destinations/26003/2 "2017-11-14T05:33:09Z")
Hello, Can you please elaborate your tasks more? 1. In first task: you are checking if the file is exist on destination server, and if not exist you will create new directory? 2. In second task: you are saying maven repo created but in this task you are coping your files src to destination. if you can elaborate what is your scenario and why are you using handler here, that will be a great help. thanks Soniya ---
**Author:** ![Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dec6dc/32.png) [@Love](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Love)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-copy-multiple-files-to-multiple-destinations/26003/3 "2017-11-23T14:22:38Z")
Hello Soniya, Yes, First I need to check if the directory exists or NOT & create it, works perfect!! Second: After the above directory is created, I need to copy 3 different files from 3 different sources to 2 destinations. In other words many to many copy is NOT working for me. Please let me know if its still not clear? ---
**Author:** ![lidor.ettinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bbce88/32.png) [@lidor.ettinger](https://forum.ansible.com/u/lidor.ettinger)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-copy-multiple-files-to-multiple-destinations/26003/4 "2017-11-23T22:05:07Z")
Hi You can consider something like: win\_copy: src: “{{item.src}}” dest: “{{item.dest}}” with\_items: - { src: path\_to\_src , dest: path\_to\_dest} - { src: path\_to\_src , dest: path\_to\_dest} - { src: path\_to\_src , dest: path\_to\_dest} Depending if you want to copy to linux machine or windows so then there are also different modules to use in order to copy bunch of files from the same location source. ---
**Author:** ![Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dec6dc/32.png) [@Love](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Love)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-copy-multiple-files-to-multiple-destinations/26003/5 "2017-11-27T23:08:05Z")
This is a 100% linux/unix environment, so I did not even consider win\_copy, do you think “win\_copy” will work on/for “linux to linux” ? I will definitely give it a try & also need permissions intact at destination, so I would need to insert mode for those files. ---
**Author:** ![Soniya\_panwar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@Soniya\_panwar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Soniya_panwar)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 4:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-copy-multiple-files-to-multiple-destinations/26003/6 "2017-11-28T04:51:44Z")
Hello, You may use below code to perform many to many copy. You may use a when condition to ensure that copy task takes place only when the directory is sucessfully created. In case of directory creation getting failed, the copy task would not be performed. Below is the detailed playbook: 1. create the directory 2. check if maven repo directory exists on destination server 3. copy files from source to destination once the creation is successful — # Deploy EP7.0 on desired servers - hosts: test remote\_user: deploy become: yes become\_method: sudo connection: ssh gather\_facts: yes tasks: - name: Create maven if not exist file: path: /opt/dtv/apache-maven-3.5.0/.m2/repository state: directory owner: root group: root mode: 0755 - name: check if maven repo exists on destination server stat: path=/opt/dtv/apache-maven-3.5.0/.m2/repository register: stat\_result - debug: var=stat\_result - name: copy files from source to destination copy: src: “{{ item.src }}” dest: “{{ item.dest }}” mode: “{{ item.mode }}” with\_items: - { src: ‘/home/psk/settings.xml’,dest: ‘/opt/dtv/apache-maven-3.5.0/.m2/repository/’,mode: ‘0755’} - { src: ‘/etc/ansible/roles/common/files/settings.xml’ , dest: ‘/opt/dtv/apache-maven-3.5.0/conf/’ , mode: ‘0644’} - { src: ‘/etc/ansible/roles/common/files/archetype-catalog.xml’ , dest: ‘/opt/dtv/apache-maven-3.5.0/.m2/repository/’ , mode: ‘0644’} when: stat\_result.stat.exists == True **Output:-** TASK [maven repo created] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* ok: [host1] =\> (item={u’dest’: u’/opt/dtv/apache-maven-3.5.0/.m2/repository/‘, u’src’: u’/home/psk/settings.xml’, u’mode’: u’0755’}) ok: [host1] =\> (item={u’dest’: u’/opt/dtv/apache-maven-3.5.0/conf/‘, u’src’: u’/etc/ansible/roles/common/files/settings.xml’, u’mode’: u’0644’}) ok: [host1] =\> (item={u’dest’: u’/opt/dtv/apache-maven-3.5.0/.m2/repository/‘, u’src’: u’/etc/ansible/roles/common/files/archetype-catalog.xml’, u’mode’: u’0644’}) PLAY RECAP \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* host1 : ok=5 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 Thanks Soniya ---
**Author:** ![Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dec6dc/32.png) [@Love](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Love)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-copy-multiple-files-to-multiple-destinations/26003/7 "2017-12-01T13:23:51Z")
Hello Soniya, Thanks for your input, I see code executed successfully without errors but files were not copied to desired destinations. ---
**Author:** ![Soniya\_panwar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@Soniya\_panwar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Soniya_panwar)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 8:50am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-copy-multiple-files-to-multiple-destinations/26003/8 "2017-12-07T08:50:25Z")
Hello Love, It will be a great help if you can share the screenshot of your playbook’s output as well as the screenshot of source and destination. The above playbook is working perfectly fine in our environment. Thanks Soniya ---
**Author:** ![Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dec6dc/32.png) [@Love](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Love)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-copy-multiple-files-to-multiple-destinations/26003/9 "2017-12-07T21:54:58Z")
Hello Soniya, Sent reply to only you as verbose output was too huge, please send me alone your email if you haven’t received it so I can send you as an attachment. ---
**Author:** ![Soniya\_panwar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@Soniya\_panwar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Soniya_panwar)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 11:15am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-copy-multiple-files-to-multiple-destinations/26003/10 "2017-12-20T11:15:52Z")
Hello Love, You cannot implement this scenario using Notify-Handler. You will have to use the WHEN condition (Implementation shown in below playbook). One of the property of Handlers is that they get fired only if there is a change in state of the task which is triggering the notification (Notify Statement). In your use-case there are 2 scenarios: **Scenario-1:** The destination maven repo does not exist and is created by the File module. In this case there is a change in state of task which triggers the Notification to “maven repo created” handler. Hence the handler will execute and the files would get copied. **Scenario-2:** The destination maven repo already exists and File module does nothing that results in the change of state of the task. Hence when the notification reaches the Handler it does nothing and files are not copied. Since this is a valid effect produced by the Handler hence there were no error/alerts thrown during the playbook execution. **Correct playbook:** ---
**Author:** ![Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dec6dc/32.png) [@Love](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Love)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-copy-multiple-files-to-multiple-destinations/26003/11 "2018-01-17T16:12:54Z")
Hi Soniya, Cool, I will implement this one and let you know. Thank you very much!!