[chef] Re: Chef Server 11 Backup / Restore

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On Apr 16, 2013, at 5:02 PM, Steven Barre wrote:

> Ohai!
> 
> I'm starting to move some of our operations into the cloud and want to 
> start using chef to manage the instances. But first I need a proper backup 
> / recovery plan for my chef-server. All the directions I can find are for 
> Chef 10 and the CouchDB, not for v11.
> 
> Anyone aware of a good tutorial on how / what to back up? And how to 
> restore and get running again.
> 
> I understand the cookbooks and databags should be in version control, but 
> the node data / keys and such is a different matter.

Fortunately it is now a good bit easier, just backup the cookbook storage 
folder and pg_dump as per normal. You'll have to do a knife reindex when you 
restore to repopulate solr. If your cookbooks are properly versioned and 
whatnot you could just do the pgdump at the risk of losing some history, if 
you don't make use of cookbook releases and version pinning this might not be 
a big deal (restore strategy for those might just be berks upload).

--Noah

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