archive: "file.zip" does not exist

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1

I have the following:

`

  • name: Compress reports
    archive:
    path: “{{ final_location }}/{{ host }}_reports”
    #dest: “{{ final_location }}/{{ host }}_reports.zip”
    format: zip

`

It returns this:

`

TASK [LookingGlass : Compress reports] *************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [3.224.151.99]: FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “msg”: “path /Users/joharmon/Desktop/LookingGlass_Reports_2019-11-14/wargames_reports.zip does not exist”, “path”: “/Users/joharmon/Desktop/LookingGlass_Reports_2019-11-14/wargames_reports.zip”}
fatal: [3.225.174.116]: FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “msg”: “path /Users/joharmon/Desktop/LookingGlass_Reports_2019-11-14/wargames_reports.zip does not exist”, “path”: “/Users/joharmon/Desktop/LookingGlass_Reports_2019-11-14/wargames_reports.zip”}
fatal: [3.220.214.197]: FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “msg”: “path /Users/joharmon/Desktop/LookingGlass_Reports_2019-11-14/wargames_reports.zip does not exist”, “path”: “/Users/joharmon/Desktop/LookingGlass_Reports_2019-11-14/wargames_reports.zip”}

`

Am I using this wrong?? If I declare a dest it also fails: ie

`
dest: “{{ final_location }}/{{ host }}_reports.zip”

`

2

John,

The value for path must exist on the remote machine. Does /Users/joharmon/Desktop/LookingGlass_Reports_2019-11-14/wargames_reports exist on the remote machine? This looks like a path that may be on the control machine.

3

No, it doesn’t. It is on my laptop. Was hoping to zip it up locally

4

Then you need to set your playbook to localhost or set delegate_to: localhost
on the task.

5

DOH! I forgot to add that… Thank you!