Prepare to backup Splunk UBA

Read and verify important information before backing up Splunk UBA.

Splunk UBA backups can be restored in the following scenarios:

Backup Method	Description and Use Case
Backup and restore Splunk UBA using automated incremental backups	Configure periodic full and incremental backups without stopping Splunk UBA. Use this when you want to backup and restore Splunk UBA to the same operating system and same number of nodes.
Backup and restore Splunk UBA using the backup and restore scripts	Run a script to stop Splunk UBA and perform a full backup. Use this when you want to backup and restore Splunk UBA to the same operating system and different number of nodes.

Backup disk size requirements

Review and verify the disk space requirements for the backup disk in Disk space and memory requirements for Splunk UBA in Install and Upgrade Splunk User Behavior Analytics.

Scheduling Splunk UBA backups

Perform or schedule backups of Splunk UBA at 10:00 PM local time to avoid conflicts with the offline models, which begin running at Midnight each night.

How long will my backup take?

The amount of time it takes to perform a backup depends on a number of factors, such as:

• The size of your environment
• The age of your environment
• Network bandwidth
• Storage throughput
• Splunk UBA on cloud deployments may be subject to performance restrictions that will significantly increase the backup/restore time
• Creating a compressed archive will take considerably longer due to the time required to compress the data

As an example, a large multi-node deployment with 5TB of data may complete a backup in less than 2 hours if the network bandwidth and storage throughput are not limiting factors.