Hi,
I really like the idea behind the “assemble” module. But what I cannot figure out is a good way to recover the backup file if a backup is created.
For example, if I do
assemble: src=/somedir/foo dest=/some/other/dir/bar backup=yes
If I need to reverse the process and find and recover bar., what then? Is there a preferred way to do that?
TIA,
-T
the backup flag has some issues.
We have been wanting to smite the “backup” feature of Ansible for a long time because it doesn’t make remote backups.
I suspect what is going to happen is the backup feature will not be enhanced and it will eventually be repurposed to work differently.
Thanks, Michael. It did seem like a kind of evolutionary dead-end. 
-T