Why is copying a directory with Ansible so slow?

Question

I\'m using Ansible to copy a directory (900 files, 136MBytes) from one host to another:

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- name: copy a directory
  copy: src={{some_directory}} dest={{re         


        

Answer 1

Best solution I have found is to just zip the folder and use the unarchive module.

450 MB folder finished in 1 minute.

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unarchive:
   src: /home/user/folder1.tar.gz
   dest: /opt