Backing Up and Restoring Individual Organizations in Chef Automate Embedded Infra Server

Organization-level backup and restore can be performed using the knife-ec-backup utility and its --only-org option. This allows backing up and restoring objects for a specific organization while still including global objects such as users. Since the utility is not included by default in Chef Automate, it must be installed and executed within the Habitat environment on the embedded Chef Infra Server. For most lab and migration use cases, backing up and restoring the entire Chef Infra Server and then removing unwanted organizations after restore is often a simpler and lower-risk approach.

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