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Restoring archived data

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Restoring archived data

Archived data can be restored by moving the archive into the thawed directory, thaweddb. An archive can be restored to any Splunk server regardless of platform. Data in thaweddb is not subject to the server's index aging scheme (hot > warm> cold > frozen). You can put old archived data in thawed for as long as you need. When the data is no longer needed, simply delete it or move it out of thawed.


The details of how to restore archived data depends on how it was archived.


Restoring a copied index archive

In this example, a previously saved archive is restored to thawed. 


# cp -r db_1181756465_1162600547_0  $SPLUNK_HOME/var/lib/splunk/defaultdb/thaweddb

Note: It is not necessary to stop and start the server when adding or removing from thaweddb.

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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 3.0 , 3.0.1 , 3.0.2 View the Article History for its revisions.


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