Deployment Architecture

Migrate an index

daniel333
Builder

All,

Our current indexer is our of physical space. We mounted some storage and I'd like to move an index over to the new mount point.

Is there a procedure for this?

My plan was
1) Shutdown Splunk server
2) Copy index over
3) Edit the index.conf to point to the new locations
4) start splunk

Anything I'm missing?

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ChrisG
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

There is documentation for this in the Managing Indexes and Clusters manual, see Move the index database.

lguinn2
Legend

That's it. Just be sure to preserve the ownership and permissions for all the files, and be sure to copy all subdirectories.
In Linux, cp -rp should do it...

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