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Running as root on CentOS 6

[root@private-chef ~]# cat .chef/knife.rb 
log_level :info
log_location STDOUT

# Run as pivotal user
node_name 'pivotal'
client_key '/etc/opscode/pivotal.pem'

chef_server_url 'https://api.opscode.piab/organizations/ponyville'
chef_server_root 'https://api.opscode.piab/'

Let's use the chef-client from the RPM, which gives us a sane ruby

  [root@private-chef ~]# /opt/chef/bin/chef-client --version
  Chef: 11.4.4

First install the knife-essentials gem

  [root@private-chef ~]# /opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem install knife-essentials
  ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::DependencyError)
      Unable to resolve dependencies: chef-zero requires moneta (< 0.7.0)

Too old, let's grab a newer chef-client RPM

  [root@private-chef ~]# rpm -Uvh /tmp/cache/chef-11.10.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm 
  warning: /tmp/cache/chef-11.10.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 83ef826a: NOKEY
  Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
     1:chef                   ########################################### [100%]
  Thank you for installing Chef!

Try installing knife-essentials again

  [root@private-chef ~]# /opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem install knife-essentials
  Fetching: knife-essentials-1.5.5.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed knife-essentials-1.5.5
  1 gem installed
  Installing ri documentation for knife-essentials-1.5.5...
  Installing RDoc documentation for knife-essentials-1.5.5...

For now, fetch knife-ec-backup from github because it's newer/better than the version in rubygems.org

  [root@private-chef ~]# git clone https://github.com/opscode/knife-ec-backup.git
  Initialized empty Git repository in /root/knife-ec-backup/.git/
  remote: Reusing existing pack: 652, done.
  remote: Total 652 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
  Receiving objects: 100% (652/652), 95.34 KiB, done.
  Resolving deltas: 100% (246/246), done.
  
  [root@private-chef ~]# cd knife-ec-backup/
  [root@private-chef knife-ec-backup]# /opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem build knife-ec-backup.gemspec 
  WARNING:  description and summary are identical
    Successfully built RubyGem
    Name: knife-ec-backup
    Version: 1.1.8
    File: knife-ec-backup-1.1.8.gem
  
  [root@private-chef knife-ec-backup]# /opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem install knife-ec-backup-1.1.8.gem 
  Successfully installed knife-ec-backup-1.1.8
  1 gem installed
  Installing ri documentation for knife-ec-backup-1.1.8...
  Installing RDoc documentation for knife-ec-backup-1.1.8...
  [root@private-chef knife-ec-backup]# cd

Create your backup destination dir first

 [root@private-chef ~]# mkdir myECbackup

Now run a backup

  [root@private-chef ~]# /opt/chef/bin/knife ec backup myECbackup --webui-key /etc/opscode/webui_priv.pem 
  Detected Enterprise Chef Server version: 11.1.1
  Grabbing users ...
  Grabbing organization ponyville ...
  Created /acls
  Created /acls/groups
  Created /acls/groups/billing-admins.json
  Created /groups
  Created /groups/billing-admins.json
  Created /groups/admins.json
  Created /clients
  Created /clients/ponyville-validator.json
  Created /containers
  Created /containers/containers.json
  Created /containers/clients.json
  Created /containers/cookbooks.json
  Created /containers/data.json
  Created /containers/environments.json
  Created /containers/nodes.json
  Created /containers/groups.json
  Created /containers/sandboxes.json
  Created /containers/roles.json
  Created /cookbooks
  Created /data_bags
  Created /environments
  Created /environments/_default.json
  Created /nodes
  Created /roles
  Created /acls/groups/a5969552a3e911e388b508002773304a.json
  Created /acls/groups/a669535ca3e911e388b508002773304a.json
  Created /acls/groups/a7290f4ea3e911e388b508002773304a.json
  Created /acls/groups/a7e8fe58a3e911e388b508002773304a.json
  Created /acls/groups/a8a90248a3e911e388b508002773304a.json
  Created /acls/groups/a96e3c3ea3e911e388b508002773304a.json
  Created /acls/groups/admins.json
  Created /acls/groups/clients.json
  Created /acls/groups/users.json
  Created /acls/clients
  Created /acls/clients/ponyville-validator.json
  Created /acls/containers
  Created /acls/containers/containers.json
  Created /acls/containers/sandboxes.json
  Created /acls/containers/groups.json
  Created /acls/containers/clients.json
  Created /acls/containers/environments.json
  Created /acls/containers/cookbooks.json
  Created /acls/containers/data.json
  Created /acls/containers/roles.json
  Created /acls/containers/nodes.json
  Created /acls/cookbooks
  Created /acls/data_bags
  Created /acls/environments
  Created /acls/environments/_default.json
  Created /acls/nodes
  Created /acls/roles
  Created /acls/organization.json
  Created /groups/a5969552a3e911e388b508002773304a.json
  Created /groups/a669535ca3e911e388b508002773304a.json
  Created /groups/a7290f4ea3e911e388b508002773304a.json
  Created /groups/a7e8fe58a3e911e388b508002773304a.json
  Created /groups/a8a90248a3e911e388b508002773304a.json
  Created /groups/a96e3c3ea3e911e388b508002773304a.json
  Created /groups/clients.json
  Created /groups/users.json
  Grabbing organization wonderbolts ...
  Created /acls
  Created /acls/groups
  Created /acls/groups/billing-admins.json
  Created /groups
  Created /groups/billing-admins.json
  Created /groups/admins.json
  Created /clients
  Created /clients/wonderbolts-validator.json
  Created /containers
  Created /containers/clients.json
  Created /containers/data.json
  Created /containers/containers.json
  Created /containers/groups.json
  Created /containers/cookbooks.json
  Created /containers/roles.json
  Created /containers/sandboxes.json
  Created /containers/environments.json
  Created /containers/nodes.json
  Created /cookbooks
  Created /data_bags
  Created /environments
  Created /environments/_default.json
  Created /nodes
  Created /roles
  Created /acls/groups/aa324e6ca3e911e388b508002773304a.json
  Created /acls/groups/aaf01b5ea3e911e388b508002773304a.json
  Created /acls/groups/abbcc258a3e911e388b508002773304a.json
  Created /acls/groups/ac84f598a3e911e388b508002773304a.json
  Created /acls/groups/admins.json
  Created /acls/groups/clients.json
  Created /acls/groups/users.json
  Created /acls/clients
  Created /acls/clients/wonderbolts-validator.json
  Created /acls/containers
  Created /acls/containers/clients.json
  Created /acls/containers/environments.json
  Created /acls/containers/sandboxes.json
  Created /acls/containers/groups.json
  Created /acls/containers/nodes.json
  Created /acls/containers/data.json
  Created /acls/containers/cookbooks.json
  Created /acls/containers/containers.json
  Created /acls/containers/roles.json
  Created /acls/cookbooks
  Created /acls/data_bags
  Created /acls/environments
  Created /acls/environments/_default.json
  Created /acls/nodes
  Created /acls/roles
  Created /acls/organization.json
  Created /groups/aa324e6ca3e911e388b508002773304a.json
  Created /groups/aaf01b5ea3e911e388b508002773304a.json
  Created /groups/abbcc258a3e911e388b508002773304a.json
  Created /groups/ac84f598a3e911e388b508002773304a.json
  Created /groups/clients.json
  Created /groups/users.json

The newer version exports users with their private keys, so you can perform a complete restore

  [root@private-chef ~]# ls -la myECbackup/
  organizations/ user_acls/     users/
  
  [root@private-chef ~]# ls -la myECbackup/users/
  applejack.json        pinkiepie.json        rapidfire.json        spitfire.json         
  fleetfoot.json        pivotal.json          rarity.json           twilightsparkle.json  
  fluttershy.json       rainbowdash.json      soarin.json   
  
  [root@private-chef ~]# cat myECbackup/users/soarin.json 
  {
    "first_name": "soarin",
    "last_name": "soarin",
    "middle_name": "soarin",
    "display_name": "soarin",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "username": "soarin",
    "public_key": "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\nMIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAwR2Yg8zEOiKBbHSx/zce\nZXnsayt2HTIVrttKZpnOxsmoLOvWhkOIKTGQwhGWbyQ8niP+PVGf7GHaEgDOo1+l\n9qIbW1uKlSBjF9Ge8VfH/CSbTsEzXABQ5OlXrB224b6rN6vx/tpYGOsfWObfHtoO\nZD8KOIjxTsiBFGQX7y6+2fg8gnp8jhSufohEfn5EP/q7/I32UUPoMcqZwk3Qygyp\nQZsYot6xIZQm6YnKy7G9DiCn2SyRb1WoCHnVm4J+Pk7qN2qelyINz6A2Be9bUavN\nka0dE5WF3+6DVvPx6CoVFO9fXBV3t6eQUE8KtCpbFVwAS7qeGi7HUzrzVXkqEhWu\nUQIDAQAB\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\n"
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iennae commented Jul 29, 2014

Instead of above, I did the following in recipe to install EC.

gem_package "knife-ec-backup" do
gem_binary("/opt/opscode/embedded/bin/gem")
version("2.0.0.beta.2")
options("--prerelease")
end

It works to install it as expected. Keiser also says don't use knife-essentials.

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