https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Migrate-from-Windows-installation-to-Linux-installation/m-p/19603#M354 <P>you can absolutely migrate your data if your Windows instance is from 4.2 or later, just use the procedure here--use the first half of the *Nix procedure and the 2nd half of the Windows one:<BR /> <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Moveanindex">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Moveanindex</A></P> <P>it might be easiest to hand-move all the config content in /local/ one file at a time to make sure you switch the direction of the slashes etc, but all the configs are the same (except for your inputs, of course). </P> Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:45:07 GMT piebob 2012-07-27T17:45:07Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Migrate-from-Windows-installation-to-Linux-installation/m-p/19602#M353 <P>Hello,</P> <P>We are going to install a new splunk installation on a Linux machine. We would like to migrate settings and data from the old Windows server.</P> <P>Can you point us in the right direction?</P> Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:55:13 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Migrate-from-Windows-installation-to-Linux-installation/m-p/19602#M353 htruong74 2012-07-27T15:55:13Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Migrate-from-Windows-installation-to-Linux-installation/m-p/19603#M354 <P>you can absolutely migrate your data if your Windows instance is from 4.2 or later, just use the procedure here--use the first half of the *Nix procedure and the 2nd half of the Windows one:<BR /> <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Moveanindex">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Moveanindex</A></P> <P>it might be easiest to hand-move all the config content in /local/ one file at a time to make sure you switch the direction of the slashes etc, but all the configs are the same (except for your inputs, of course). </P> Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:45:07 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Migrate-from-Windows-installation-to-Linux-installation/m-p/19603#M354 piebob 2012-07-27T17:45:07Z