[chef] Re: Re: Moving couchdb, validator/webui.pem and cookbooks to a new server

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Friday, March 9, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Cliff Dickerson wrote:

> What I did was:
> 
> Do couchdb replication to the new chef server (couchdb box) 
> Delete the existing couchdb entries for webui and validator pems on the new 
> couchdb (there will be duplicates and you have to compare. Had I been 
> better at couchdb replication I think I could have filtered those entries 
> out)
> Copied over the /etc/chef stuff
> Restarted chef
> knife index rebuild
> 
> 
> one thing to note in the /etc/chef/server.rb
> 
> checksum_path "/var/cache/chef/checksums"
> 
> is the location of the actual cookbook files if you arent able to just re 
> upload them.
If you don't upload your cookbooks, then you need to use `knife cookbook bulk 
delete --purge` to clear out the cookbook records in the database. Then you 
can re-upload all of your cookbooks.


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Dan DeLeo