# copy fails silently on remote  host on small $HOME/.ansible/tmp

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/copy-fails-silently-on-remote-host-on-small-home-ansible-tmp/18599>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [June 25, 2015, 7:48am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/copy-fails-silently-on-remote-host-on-small-home-ansible-tmp/18599 "2015-06-25T07:48:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Torsten\_Reinhard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Torsten\_Reinhard](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Torsten_Reinhard)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 7:48am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/copy-fails-silently-on-remote-host-on-small-home-ansible-tmp/18599/1 "2015-06-25T07:48:12Z")

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Hi,

we are using Ansible 1.8.2, and we stumbled upon a problem after copying and unarchiving a (large) file:

`  
failed: [[myhost.com](http://myhost.com)] =\> {“failed”: true}  
msg: Failed to find handler to unarchive. Make sure the required command to extract the file is installed.  
msg: Failed to find handler to unarchive. Make sure the required command to extract the file is installed.

`

The task(s) looks like:

`

- name: copy artifact to the target machine  
copy: src={{ local\_nexus\_jar.dest }} dest={{ remote\_transfer\_dir }}

- name: prepare | unarchive deployment package on target node directly to target directory  
unarchive:  
copy=‘no’  
src=“{{remote\_transfer\_dir}}/{{wls\_artifactId}}-{{wls\_version}}.{{wls\_type}}”  
dest=“/opt/wls/”

`

The file we´ve previously downloaded has these attributes:

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/copy-fails-silently-on-remote-host-on-small-home-ansible-tmp/18599/2 "2015-06-26T16:34:30Z")

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copy should fail, that is a bug, please open a PR

just curious, why not let unarchive copy the file?