https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/How-to-backup-the-GUI/m-p/34907#M972 <P>You simply need to create a backup of $SPLUNK_HOME/etc this is where most (if not ALL) configurations are stored. You could also simply back up everything except the indexes (if space is an issue).</P> <P>Here is the Splunk docs about backups.... <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Backupconfigurationinformation">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Backupconfigurationinformation</A></P> <P>Hope this answers your question.</P> <P>If it does answer you question, please mark the question as answered to help the community.</P> <P>Regards,</P> <P>Matt</P> Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:30:50 GMT MHibbin 2011-12-14T14:30:50Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/How-to-backup-the-GUI/m-p/34906#M971 <P>I have been researching how to backup splunk, and a lot of the information I'm finding pertains to the indexes. Is there a way for me to back up my custom settings within the GUI? (saved searches, navs, views, etc.) My Splunk instance is running on a physical machine and I'd like to be able to back up the GUI in case of system crash. </P> <P>Thanks!</P> Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:23:45 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/How-to-backup-the-GUI/m-p/34906#M971 appmandan 2011-12-14T14:23:45Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/How-to-backup-the-GUI/m-p/34907#M972 <P>You simply need to create a backup of $SPLUNK_HOME/etc this is where most (if not ALL) configurations are stored. You could also simply back up everything except the indexes (if space is an issue).</P> <P>Here is the Splunk docs about backups.... <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Backupconfigurationinformation">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Backupconfigurationinformation</A></P> <P>Hope this answers your question.</P> <P>If it does answer you question, please mark the question as answered to help the community.</P> <P>Regards,</P> <P>Matt</P> Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:30:50 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/How-to-backup-the-GUI/m-p/34907#M972 MHibbin 2011-12-14T14:30:50Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/How-to-backup-the-GUI/m-p/34908#M973 <P>so if you are on a nix machine you could tar czvf splunkback.tgz $SPLUNK_HOME/etc.</P> Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:32:10 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/How-to-backup-the-GUI/m-p/34908#M973 MHibbin 2011-12-14T14:32:10Z