[chef] Node recovery?

[Aaron Abramson < >]

I lost an EC2 instance over the weekend.  Is there a proper method to replace 
it?

In the past, when I simply delete a client from chef, and bootstrap a client 
using the same node name, it registers itself, but wipes out the node 
run_list and attribute data.

Is there a way to bring up a new instance and assign it to be XYZ node and 
inherit the run_list & attributes?


Aaron