# unarchive remote\_src not working, no effect

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/unarchive-remote-src-not-working-no-effect/23239>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [December 12, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unarchive-remote-src-not-working-no-effect/23239 "2016-12-12T17:50:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spike\_Robinson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Spike\_Robinson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Spike_Robinson)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unarchive-remote-src-not-working-no-effect/23239/1 "2016-12-12T17:50:56Z")

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the **copy** option in the **unarchive** module is deprecated and we are advised to use **remote\_src** instead

However, in an otherwise identical script, having staged the source file to the target machine successfully in a previous play, if I use **copy = no** the play succeeds, but if instead of that I use **remote\_src = yes** or **remote\_src = no** , the play fails, in both cases saying the file source does not exist.

So in summary remote\_src either has no effect or perhaps expects some of the other parameters to unarchive to be different than what the copy option expects them to be.