[chef] Moving Chef-server from CentOS 5.5 to CentOS6.x on another server

["Van Fossan,Randy" < >]

Has anyone ever moved there Chef Server from one server to another on a 
different OS version?   I need to move from a CentOS 5.5 Chef-Server 0.10.8 
running in a Virtual Machine to a Physical Server that will be running CentOS 
6.2 and Chef-Server 0.10.8 and upgrading couchdb along the way.

My plan is to build a server with the same name as our current chef-server 
and then install chef-server normally.  I then want to backup / export the 
data from the old server and migrate it to the new server.   I do not want to 
have to reregister any of my nodes.     


I have ran "knife exec chef_server_backup.rb".  Will this get everything I 
need to bring across?  other than the contents of /etc/chef ???

Please advise..