Hands-On Enterprise Automation with Python.

Using get operation

The syntax for the Fabric get operation is as follows:

get(remote_path, local_path)

This will download the files from the remote host to the machine running the fabfile, using either rsync or scp . This is commonly used when you need to gather log files to the server, for example:

def get_ops():    try:        get("/var/log/messages","/root/")    except:        pass