[chef] Re: Re: Upgrading from Chef 10 -> Chef 11

[John Keiser < >]

Yes, it absolutely should, except that's much simpler: just do step 3 to set up, and then "knife download /" will download everything for a backup, and "knife upload /" will upload everything to restore / copy everything.

The repository and target server doesn't have to be clean to do it, either: successive knife downloads and knife uploads will cause anything that has changed to be updated.  Though in those cases, you should probably add --purge to the upload and download commands lines; this will cause it to clear out dead and deleted data.

--John

From: Elvin Abordo < "> >
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Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 12:53 PM
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Subject: [chef] Re: Upgrading from Chef 10 -> Chef 11

Thank you for posting this. I was actually trying to figure out how to stand up a "cold" standby in another data center for my chef server. I'm assuming this would work the same to backup chef11 to chef11?

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:45 PM, John Keiser < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

For those of you running Chef 10 and wondering what it takes to get the data over to Chef 11, wonder no more :)  This post on the Opscode Blog details how to do it using knife-essentials (knife download and upload).

Turn it to 11: Upgrading From Chef 10

http://www.opscode.com/blog/2013/03/12/5106/

--John

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