In ansible version 2.9.25 - how to tar, compress (gzip) the directory in Linux and copy to destination path

In ansible version 2.9.25 - how to create tar file of given dir and also compress (gzip) that dir in Linux (RHEL 7.9) to the given destination path directly. During Oracle DB patching as pre-check task, I want to take backup of existing oraInventory dir to the destination path. oraInventory is always under /u01/app dir in all Linux servers. I have already tried the community.general.archive but it is not working properly in "ansible version 2.9.25".

at present - Manually I used to run below command which creates tar file of oraInventory and gzip to the destination path (/dbbackup)

cd /u01/app tar -pczvf /dbbackup/Backup_OraInv_<SID_NAME>.tar oraInventory | gzip > /dbbackup/Backup_OraInv_<SID_NAME>.tar.gz

Please help for this code.

I have already tried the community.general.archive but it is not working properly in "ansible version 2.9.25".

Solution

According the documentation archive module – Creates a compressed archive of one or more files or trees and Examples, a minimal playbook

---
- hosts: localhost
  become: false
  gather_facts: false

  tasks:

  - archive:
      path: "/home/user/test/toarchive/"
      dest: "backup.tar.gz"
      format: gz
      force_archive: true

will result into a backup.tar.gz file having the requested content

tar -tvf backup.tar.gz

To summarize, based on the currently given information not able to (re-)produce an issue.