Chef Client Cookbook to run from local system : Taking backup using tar command

 First go to the chef cookbook location and create below directories

cd cookbooks
mkdir -p backupfolder/recipes

create the cookbook backupfolder.rb

execute 'Backup Directory' do
	command 'tar -cvf /opt/sw/backup_$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S%3N").tar /opt/sw/conf  /opt/sw/apps'
	action :run
end

the above code will take backup of conf folder and apps folder into a single tar file with datetime stamp. To run the chef client we use the below command

chef-client -zr recipe[backupfolder::backupfolder]