[chef] Re: Re: Chef Server 11 Backup / Restore

[Steven Barre < >]

Thanks Todd and Elvin

I found that "knife download / upload" didn't restore nodes / clients / users.

"knife backup" seems to get everything except users.

So I'm using both to get all the data I want.

Backup

# knife backup export -D /home/stack/chef-repo/.chef/chef_server_backup
# knife download --purge --chef-repo-path /home/stack/chef-repo/.chef/chef_server_backup --repo-mode everything /users

Its not documented, but you need to restore all the folders, you cant just "restore everything" in one go.

# knife backup restore clients
# knife backup restore cookbooks
# knife backup restore data_bags
# knife backup restore nodes
# knife backup restore roles

Then "knife user create" to create my users. It appears I can't just pass in the json file file from "knife download /users" though and have to manually copy paste the data.

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On 2013-04-17 12:23, Todd Bushnell wrote:

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FWIW, I also found this knife-backup plugin quite useful:  http://www.ducea.com/2013/03/04/knife-backup/.  

I preferred that it backed up and restored all cookbook versions; not just the latest.  If you don't necessarily want "all the history" you can clean-up with knife-cleanup plugin before proceeding with knife-backup.  He details this process in the link above.  Cheers.  

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On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Steven Barre < " target="_blank"> > 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.

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