Moving tasks order, file has to be created first before being copied

Moving order back to before, adding a stat to check if file exists

Correcting use of stat conditional

Typo

Removing EDX_ANSIBLE_DUMP_VARS from create backup copy

Using file instead of copy module

using copy / backup module

Adding back logic to check if file exists

Moving tasks order, file has to be created first before being copied

Moving order back to before, adding a stat to check if file exists

Correcting use of stat conditional

Typo

Removing EDX_ANSIBLE_DUMP_VARS from create backup copy

Using file instead of copy module

using copy / backup module

Adding back logic to check if file exists

Logic to make sure that backup of server-var.yml works

playbooks/roles/edx_ansible/tasks/deploy.yml

@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@
 
 - name: create backup of server vars
   copy: >
-    src={{ edx_ansible_var_file }}
-    dest={{ edx_ansible_var_file }}.old
+    path={{ edx_ansible_var_file }}.old
+    backup=yes
   when: edx_ansible_var_file_exists.stat.exists
 
 - name: dump all vars to yaml