win_robocopy – Synchronizes the contents of two directories using Robocopy

Synopsis

• Synchronizes the contents of files/directories from a source to destination.
• Under the hood this just calls out to RoboCopy, since that should be available on most modern Windows systems.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
dest path / required		Destination file/directory to sync (Will receive contents of src).
flags string		Directly supply Robocopy flags. If set, purge and recurse will be ignored.
purge boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Deletes any files/directories found in the destination that do not exist in the source. Toggles the /purge flag to RoboCopy. If flags is set, this will be ignored.
recurse boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Includes all subdirectories (Toggles the /e flag to RoboCopy). If flags is set, this will be ignored.
src path / required		Source file/directory to sync.

Notes

Note

• This is not a complete port of the synchronize module. Unlike the synchronize module this only performs the sync/copy on the remote machine, not from the master to the remote machine.
• This module does not currently support all Robocopy flags.

See Also

See also

synchronize – A wrapper around rsync to make common tasks in your playbooks quick and easy

The official documentation on the synchronize module.

win_copy – Copies files to remote locations on windows hosts

The official documentation on the win_copy module.

Examples

- name: Sync the contents of one directory to another
  win_robocopy:
    src: C:\DirectoryOne
    dest: C:\DirectoryTwo

- name: Sync the contents of one directory to another, including subdirectories
  win_robocopy:
    src: C:\DirectoryOne
    dest: C:\DirectoryTwo
    recurse: yes

- name: Sync the contents of one directory to another, and remove any files/directories found in destination that do not exist in the source
  win_robocopy:
    src: C:\DirectoryOne
    dest: C:\DirectoryTwo
    purge: yes

- name: Sync content in recursive mode, removing any files/directories found in destination that do not exist in the source
  win_robocopy:
    src: C:\DirectoryOne
    dest: C:\DirectoryTwo
    recurse: yes
    purge: yes

- name: Sync two directories in recursive and purging mode, specifying additional special flags
  win_robocopy:
    src: C:\DirectoryOne
    dest: C:\DirectoryTwo
    flags: /E /PURGE /XD SOME_DIR /XF SOME_FILE /MT:32

- name: Sync one file from a remote UNC path in recursive and purging mode, specifying additional special flags
  win_robocopy:
    src: \\Server1\Directory One
    dest: C:\DirectoryTwo
    flags: file.zip /E /PURGE /XD SOME_DIR /XF SOME_FILE /MT:32

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
cmd string	always	The used command line. Sample: robocopy C:\DirectoryOne C:\DirectoryTwo /e /purge
dest string	always	The Destination file/directory of the sync. Sample: C:\Some\Path
flags string	always	Any flags passed in by the user. Sample: /e /purge
msg string	always	Output interpreted into a concise message. Sample: No files copied!
output string	success	The output of running the robocopy command. Sample: ------------------------------------\n ROBOCOPY :: Robust File Copy for Windows \n------------------------------------\n
purge boolean	always	Whether or not the purge flag was toggled.
rc integer	success	The return code returned by robocopy. Sample: 1
recurse boolean	always	Whether or not the recurse flag was toggled.
src string	always	The Source file/directory of the sync. Sample: C:\Some\Path

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Corwin Brown (@blakfeld)

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