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The Opscode wiki only provides some rather vague and incomplete hints for migrating Chef to a new server. Below is what I actually did and it worked for me. This is all running on Debian Squeeze and using Chef 0.10.8 from the Opscode provided Debian packages.

On the new server:

apt-get install chef-server
/etc/init.d/chef-server-webui stop
/etc/init.d/chef-server stop
/etc/init.d/chef-expander stop
/etc/init.d/chef-solr …