@thambisettyI removed the spaces from all the index names and directories. I did this in the indexes.conf file and the associated index directories under $SPLUNK_DB. ... View more

Thanks again, but -there are no excess buckets -v6.4.2 does not have options for fixing buckets as described I'm looking into some support options from Splunk for an answer. ... View more

Your reply is much appreciated. Please clarify the statement "Please do run migrate the splunk version before you fix it." Should this be "do not run?" I have restarted the master (splunk stop, splunk start) and then ran the rolling-restart after a while. A couple hours later the pending fixup tasks has gone up to 12991. About 44 of the 132 indexes meet SF and RF, strangely these are somewhat grouped alphabetically - index names that start with A through FF all have good SF/RF, except for 5; the rest of the indexes FE through W (except for main) do not meet SF/RF. Firewall is good, netstat shows established connections from peers to master on port 8089 and both directions between the two peers on 8080. ... View more