Backup With Rsync — Local to Remote — Ansible module synchronize

How to automate the backup of an “examples” directory minimizing network usage on Linux using Ansible module synchronize and rsync utility.

How to backing up with rsync with Ansible?
I’m going to show you a live demo and some simple Ansible code.
I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.

Ansible backup with rsync

• `ansible.posix.synchronize`
• `synchronize` is a wrapper around rsync to make common tasks in your playbooks quick and easy.

Today we’re talking about the Ansible module `synchronize`.

The full name is `ansible.posix.synchronize`, which means that is part of the collection targeting POSIX platforms.

A wrapper around `rsync` to make common tasks in your playbooks quick and easy.

rsync is a utility for efficiently transferring and synchronizing files between a computer and a storage drive and across networked computers by comparing the modification times and sizes of files.