# File import

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/file-import/12311>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [February 8, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/file-import/12311 "2013-02-08T03:53:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Fff\_Fff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Fff\_Fff](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Fff_Fff)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/file-import/12311/1 "2013-02-08T03:53:12Z")

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There is a very useful feature in synctool that allows you to import files to the synctool equivalent of a playbook from the servers. Anyways, I would love to see this feature in Ansible. A lot of what I do is cloning one to many servers. The import feature is very handy for that. I can work around it by manually copying but the import feature makes things easier which is the whole point of software like this.

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**Author:** ![Lorin\_Hochstein1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce73a5/32.png) [@Lorin\_Hochstein1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Lorin_Hochstein1)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 3:56am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/file-import/12311/2 "2013-02-08T03:56:12Z")

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Does the fetch module do what you want?

[http://ansible.cc/docs/modules.html#fetch](http://ansible.cc/docs/modules.html#fetch)

Lorin

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**Author:** ![Fff\_Fff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Fff\_Fff](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Fff_Fff)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 3:59am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/file-import/12311/3 "2013-02-08T03:59:37Z")

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Dough!

Yes, that appears to be the same sort of thing. Did a search but never turned up anything. Thanks for the link.