https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Migrating-Operational-Splunk-off-W2K3-and-installing-on-W2K8-R2/m-p/33289#M539 <P>Operating system moves, or architecture changes </P> <P>Similar to upgrades, the idea of an install of updating a Splunk install for a new architecture or new operating system is to just unpack the appropriate splunk version on top of the existing install.</P> <P>Migrating a splunk install to a new operating system builds on this, with some caveats. The general idea is as follows.<BR /> 1. Shut down your old Splunk install: splunk stop <BR /> 2. Copy (via whatever means, scp, rsync, tar, zip) the Splunk install directory to the desired install location on the new computer.<BR /> 3. Unpack or install the Splunk tar or package for new system on top of the copied files.<BR /> 4. Start it up. splunk start </P> <P>You can even "upgrade" to the same version you were already using with this method, just to validate that the operating system transition was effective.</P> <P>**** Would this be a start?</P> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:37:36 GMT jerrelhart 2012-11-13T20:37:36Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Migrating-Operational-Splunk-off-W2K3-and-installing-on-W2K8-R2/m-p/33288#M538 <P>If there are some white pages out there please send me the link. I am looking to keep my license file, configs, and DB but I can't seem to find any documentation on a migration like this. </P> <P>Any help would be much appreciated. </P> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:28:47 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Migrating-Operational-Splunk-off-W2K3-and-installing-on-W2K8-R2/m-p/33288#M538 jerrelhart 2012-11-13T20:28:47Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Migrating-Operational-Splunk-off-W2K3-and-installing-on-W2K8-R2/m-p/33289#M539 <P>Operating system moves, or architecture changes </P> <P>Similar to upgrades, the idea of an install of updating a Splunk install for a new architecture or new operating system is to just unpack the appropriate splunk version on top of the existing install.</P> <P>Migrating a splunk install to a new operating system builds on this, with some caveats. The general idea is as follows.<BR /> 1. Shut down your old Splunk install: splunk stop <BR /> 2. Copy (via whatever means, scp, rsync, tar, zip) the Splunk install directory to the desired install location on the new computer.<BR /> 3. Unpack or install the Splunk tar or package for new system on top of the copied files.<BR /> 4. Start it up. splunk start </P> <P>You can even "upgrade" to the same version you were already using with this method, just to validate that the operating system transition was effective.</P> <P>**** Would this be a start?</P> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:37:36 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Migrating-Operational-Splunk-off-W2K3-and-installing-on-W2K8-R2/m-p/33289#M539 jerrelhart 2012-11-13T20:37:36Z