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The minion never gets a job/jid, small files copy just fine. \r\n\r\nOn the same host and minion combination salt 'minion' cp.get_file salt://file /tmp/file succeeds. \r\n\r\n    $ sudo  salt-call test.versions_report\r\nlocal:\r\n               Salt: 2014.1.11\r\n             Python: 2.7.8 (default, Oct  2 2014, 17:06:07)\r\n             Jinja2: 2.7.3\r\n           M2Crypto: 0.22\r\n     msgpack-python: 0.4.2\r\n       msgpack-pure: Not Installed\r\n           pycrypto: 2.6.1\r\n             PyYAML: 3.11\r\n              PyZMQ: 14.3.1\r\n                ZMQ: 4.0.4\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/saltstack/salt/issues/comments/210868227","html_url":"https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/16592#issuecomment-210868227","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/saltstack/salt/issues/16592","id":210868227,"user":{"login":"ajbothe","id":153131,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/153131?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ajbothe","html_url":"https://github.com/ajbothe","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ajbothe/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ajbothe/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ajbothe/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ajbothe/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ajbothe/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ajbothe/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ajbothe/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ajbothe/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ajbothe/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-04-16T18:20:31Z","updated_at":"2016-04-16T18:20:31Z","body":"I have found that cp.get_file is a good work around. Just setup a symlink in the salt files directory to whatever files you want copied. When you're done, unlink it if you don't need it any more. "}}