This sets up remote backups (dumps) of chef servers using knife-backup

Tested on CentOS 6 and Ubuntu 14.04

• node['chef_server_backup']['knife-backup']['version'] (String) default "0.0.10"
• node['chef_server_backup']['data_bag_name'] (String) default "chef_server_backup"

Installs the knife-block gem into the chef instance of ruby

Set up backup directories and cron jobs for backing up chef servers from the chef_server_backup data bag

Set up or delete a chef_server_backup directory and cron job

• name - Short name of the job, must match [\w\d_-]+
• url - full url to your chef instance (including organization if needed)
• key - the private key of the backup user on the chef server (this user should have full read permissions to all objects)

• directory - directory to back up the chef dump to (Default: File.join(Chef::Config['file_backup_path'], name))
• backup_user - System user to back up as (Default: root)
• backup_group - System group to add to backup directory and files (Default: root)
• chef_user - Chef user to set as node_name (Default: backup)
• retention - Number of days back to keep, files older than this will be purged daily (Default: 31)
• minute - Minute column of cron entry (Default: 0)
• hour - Hour column of cron entry (Default: 0)
• day - Day column of cron entry (Default: *)
• month - Month column of cron entry (Default: *)
• weekday - Weekday column of cron entry (Default: *)

To use the recipe[chef_server_backup::build_jobs] include it in your run list and have a data bag called chef_server_backup with an item like the following recipe;

### you can leave out the name and the name of the data bag item will be used
{
  "url"       : "https://chef.example.com/",
  "directory" : "/var/chef/backup/dc01",
  "key"       : "-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\nMIIEow..."
}

or a backup job to be removed:

{
  "name"   : "dc03",
  "action" : "remove"
}

If you would rather use a wrapper cookbook instead of data bags include chef_server_backup::default to install knife backup and make the LWRP available to your cookbook

If the server certificate is not present the resource will use knife ssl fetch to pull it from the server. You should always verify this is the correct and valid server for each instance. If it is invalid backups cannot work.

Rake is set up to run all the tests! Make sure to add chefspec and serverspec as needed.

• Authors:
• David Aronsohn [email protected]

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