topic Re: Can I schedule a backup of all Splunk configuration files? in Deployment Architecture https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-schedule-a-backup-of-all-Splunk-configuration-files/m-p/121462#M4583 <P>Create a python / shell script to do the backup work and schedule it. If you have Splunk distributed environment then your script should take care of the other search peers as well as forwarders.</P> <P>Cheers!</P> Thu, 13 Nov 2014 05:09:06 GMT vasanthmss 2014-11-13T05:09:06Z Can I schedule a backup of all Splunk configuration files? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-schedule-a-backup-of-all-Splunk-configuration-files/m-p/121461#M4582 <P>Hi Splunker,</P> <P>How can I schedule a backup of all Splunk configuration files?</P> <P>Thank you.</P> Thu, 13 Nov 2014 04:59:53 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-schedule-a-backup-of-all-Splunk-configuration-files/m-p/121461#M4582 tumdev 2014-11-13T04:59:53Z Re: Can I schedule a backup of all Splunk configuration files? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-schedule-a-backup-of-all-Splunk-configuration-files/m-p/121462#M4583 <P>Create a python / shell script to do the backup work and schedule it. If you have Splunk distributed environment then your script should take care of the other search peers as well as forwarders.</P> <P>Cheers!</P> Thu, 13 Nov 2014 05:09:06 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-schedule-a-backup-of-all-Splunk-configuration-files/m-p/121462#M4583 vasanthmss 2014-11-13T05:09:06Z Re: Can I schedule a backup of all Splunk configuration files? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-schedule-a-backup-of-all-Splunk-configuration-files/m-p/121463#M4584 <P>You usually just need to backup the content of the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/ folder to be able to restore the configuration.</P> Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:09:32 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-schedule-a-backup-of-all-Splunk-configuration-files/m-p/121463#M4584 yannK 2014-11-19T16:09:32Z Re: Can I schedule a backup of all Splunk configuration files? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-schedule-a-backup-of-all-Splunk-configuration-files/m-p/121464#M4585 <P>Be aware that CSV files created with outputcsv command will usually be outside of /etc directory. In case you have important CSV files here, make sure that those are backed up as well.</P> Tue, 25 Nov 2014 14:04:45 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-schedule-a-backup-of-all-Splunk-configuration-files/m-p/121464#M4585 norbert_hamel 2014-11-25T14:04:45Z