Update from 6.0 to 6.0.1

[bowesmana]

I've just noticed that 6.0.1 is released. I have a 6.0 tarball install. Not having done this before, is the normal way to update to 6.0.1 just to untar the new version on top of the old. I am assuming this will not overwrite my config. I have not made any changed to the default branch of any directories.

Naturally I will backup first...

[guilmxm · Accepted solution]

Hi,

That's no big deal, and the answer is NO you won't loose your change:

• custom config files in "local" dir (eg. system/local...)
• App installed ans associates files
• indexes...

But if you have modified system files whitout creating the overwritten version in local dirs, yes these changes will probably be lost.

As for an example, if you have custom limits configuration, don't modify system/defaults/limits.conf but create a new files including your setting in system/local/limits.conf

To upgrade from previous release when you installed through the tarball Archive:

1. Stop Splunk

2. Backup your current install using tar

3. Extract the tar.gz where splunk is installed, only splunk files will be overwritten, you won't loose any thing. (even if backing up is always a good idea)

Let's say you installed by default, splunk is installed in /opt/splunk

In terminal, go at top of splunk dir (cd /opt) and extract files (tar -xvf )

1. Start Splunk and accept changes

[laserval]

Will splunk-launch.cfg also be overwritten by an update? I suspect so.

[bowesmana]

Great answer, thanks guilmxm, just what I was looking for.