Error when running envsync backup: unknown flag --config

[il-mentegatto]

Hello,

I'm trying to use this tool to migrate configurations from an old Developer Edition tenant to a new Integrator Edition.

I’ve correctly set up the okta-cli-client using an API token (commands like okta-cli-client work as expected). However, when I try to export all the configurations using the okta-dev-account-migration-tool with the command shown in the README:

envsync backup

I get the following output:

Using configuration from C:\Users\Windows10\.okta\okta.yaml
Backing up first pass resources...
Backing up user using lists command...
Error: unknown flag: --config
Usage:
  okta-cli-client user lists [flags]

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for lists

unknown flag: --config
Warning: Failed to execute user lists backup: exit status 1
Backing up group using lists command...
Error: unknown flag: --config
Usage:
  okta-cli-client group lists [flags]

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for lists

unknown flag: --config
Warning: Failed to execute group lists backup: exit status 1
Backing up userType using lists command...
Error: unknown flag: --config
Usage:
  okta-cli-client userType lists [flags]

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for lists

unknown flag: --config
. . .
. . .

(You can find the full output in the attached output.txt file.)

I'm not sure why this is happening. Let me know if you need any more information.
Thanks

[micalazalea]

I believe you need to pass in those values to the original envsync backup call, eg

envsync backup --config=<path/to/okta.yaml> --output=<path/to/backup>

[il-mentegatto]

Nope, unfortunately, trying for example with:

envsync backup --config=C:\Users\Windows10\.okta\okta.yaml --output=C:\Users\Windows10\.okta

I receive the same errors: output.txt

I tried changing the syntax of the command (e.g. --config "C:\Users\Windows10\.okta\okta.yaml" or --config C:\Users\Windows10\.okta\okta.yaml or --config="C:\Users\Windows10\.okta\okta.yaml") but the errors remain the same :<

[danonorato]

Will this tool backup Application setups? Better yet, is there a list of the objects it will backup for restore purposes?

[etiennepeiniau]

Same problem here. when I run the command with or without the config path parameter :

• envsync backup --config=<path/to/okta.yaml> --output=<path/to/backup>
• envsync backup --output=<path/to/backup>

My config file is placed in the default location : $HOME/.okta/okta.yaml

The error is :

Backing up rateLimitSettings using getAdminNotifications command...
Error: unknown flag: --config
Usage:
  okta-cli-client rateLimitSettings getAdminNotifications [flags]

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for getAdminNotifications

The okta-cli-client is correctly configure. For exampe, the command okta-cli-client group lists is working fine.

[akashokta]

The error is expected when you have installed the standard version of okta-cli-client from the main repository.

There are some changes that are made by @edunham to the okta-cli-client so it works with this tool - https://github.com/edunham/okta-cli-client/tree/file-handling

You can find the instructions to install that version of the okta-cli-client here in this Readme - https://github.com/oktadev/okta-dev-account-migration-tool?tab=readme-ov-file#setup

Make sure you are deleting or renaming the existing okta-cli-client from the /Users/<your_user>/go/bin path and install the given version of the okta-cli-client from the file-handling branch and add it to the $PATH variable.

export PATH=$PATH:/Users/<your_user>/go/bin

If you are not able to clone the repo, fork it to your account and clone it from there.

Currently, it appears that this is not merged to the okta-cli-client's repo and there is a open PR for the same - okta/okta-cli-client#18

This should fix the error that you are facing.

Credits - @edunham

[il-mentegatto]

Perfect, now it works.
Thanks to @akashokta for the solution.