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Welcome to Splunk administration
What to do first
Use Splunk Web
Meet Splunk apps
Configure Splunk
Indexing with Splunk
Add data and configure inputs
Set up forwarding and receiving
Configure event processing
Configure event timestamping
Configure indexed field extraction
Manage users
Manage indexes
Define alerts
Set up backups and retention policies
Configure data security
Deploy to other Splunk instances
Set up distributed search
Manage search jobs
Use Splunk's command line interface (CLI)
Configuration file reference
Troubleshooting

Back up configuration information

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Back up configuration information

All Splunk's configuration information is contained in configuration files. To back up the set of cofiguration files, make an archive or copy of $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/. This directory, along with its subdirectories, contains all the default and custom settings for your Splunk install, and all apps, including saved searches, user accounts, tags, custom source type names, and other configuration information.

Copy this directory to a new Splunk instance to restore. You don't have to stop Splunk to do this.

For more information about configuration files, including the structure of the underlying directories, read "About configuration files".

Retrieved from "http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.1.5/Admin/Backupconfigurationinformation"

This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 4.1 , 4.1.1 , 4.1.2 , 4.1.3 , 4.1.4 , 4.1.5 , 4.1.6 , 4.1.7 , 4.1.8 , 4.2 , 4.2.1 , 4.2.2 , 4.2.3 , 4.2.4 , 4.2.5 , 4.3 , 4.3.1 , 4.3.2 , 4.3.3 , 4.3.4 , 4.3.5 , 4.3.6 View the Article History for its revisions.


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