# rsync failure **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [August 1, 2022, 7:04am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rsync-failure/36927 "2022-08-01T07:04:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ashok-2017](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/ashok-2017/32/659_2.png) [@Ashok-2017](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ashok-2017)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 7:04am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rsync-failure/36927/1 "2022-08-01T07:04:05Z")
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**Author:** ![dulhaver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/dulhaver/32/1061_2.png) [@dulhaver](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dulhaver)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 7:37am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rsync-failure/36927/2 "2022-08-01T07:37:33Z")
my guess: Ansible detects that the host has no rsync installed, so the TASK can not be executed. So you'd you have to create a preceeding (package/yum/apt) TASK that makes sure rsync is installed on the hosts in order to make this work. ---
**Author:** ![Ashok-2017](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/ashok-2017/32/659_2.png) [@Ashok-2017](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ashok-2017)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 10:23am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rsync-failure/36927/3 "2022-08-01T10:23:36Z")
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**Author:** ![dnmvisser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e8cbc/32.png) [@dnmvisser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dnmvisser)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rsync-failure/36927/4 "2022-08-01T10:48:02Z")
The listeral string “inventory hostname” is not a valid hostname. Fix that. Also, “become\_method: sudo” and “gather\_facts: true” are both the same as the defaults, so you can leave that out. ---
**Author:** ![Ashok-2017](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/ashok-2017/32/659_2.png) [@Ashok-2017](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ashok-2017)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 11:07am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rsync-failure/36927/5 "2022-08-01T11:07:03Z")
Hi Team, whatever i’ve mentioned the inventory hostname just ref i.e not the actual one. ---
**Author:** ![dnmvisser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e8cbc/32.png) [@dnmvisser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dnmvisser)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 12:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rsync-failure/36927/6 "2022-08-01T12:37:30Z")
Well in that case you will have to find out for yourself why it doesn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![jcpetro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/53a042/32.png) [@jcpetro](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jcpetro)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rsync-failure/36927/7 "2022-08-01T12:47:28Z")
Have you run the playbook in verbose mode to get more detail? Maybe there’s a mis-spelling in the inventory hostname you used or something in the inventory. The only other idea I have is to copy/paste the msg section that starts with “Could” into your search engine of choice and see what comes up there. –John ---
**Author:** ![shearn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba8739/32.png) [@shearn](https://forum.ansible.com/u/shearn)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rsync-failure/36927/8 "2022-08-01T13:13:07Z")
Isn’t src and dest the same place? ansible.posix.synchronize: src: /root dest: /root ---
**Author:** ![Ashok-2017](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/ashok-2017/32/659_2.png) [@Ashok-2017](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ashok-2017)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 1:59am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rsync-failure/36927/9 "2022-08-02T01:59:01Z")
both are in the different hostnames.