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Is there any other way to do a backup of KV store data than using the "splunk backup kvstore" command?

svendby90 — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 05:00:27 GMT

We have an instance where KV store is not running and we're looking to clean the whole thing out. However, we would like to see if we're able to keep the data.

So, my question is; is there any other way to do a backup of KV store data than using the "splunk backup kvstore" command?

Re: Backup KV Store (alternative to splunk backup kvstore command)

tshah-splunk — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 04:21:51 GMT

Hey @svendby90,

There is an alternate way as well to take a backup of the kvstore other than the backup command. Steps are as below:

Stop splunk

$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk stop

Create tar of the kvstore directory

tar -cvzf <destination_path>/backup.tgz $SPLUNK_HOME/var/lib/splunk/kvstore

Start splunk again

$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk start

Re: Backup KV Store (alternative to splunk backup kvstore command)

haraksin — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 04:51:41 GMT

How do you restore from this method? If I clean the KVstore after backing up like this, won't untarring over the cleaned files just put the system back in the state it was, uncleaned? Or even worse, would it break mongo?

Re: Is there any other way to do a backup of KV store data than using the "splunk backup kvstore" command?

isoutamo — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 07:01:45 GMT

here is one old discussion how you could do it online without service break https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Enterprise/Are-there-any-automated-scripts-to-back-up-the-kvstore-on-each/m-p/549057/highlight/true#M5664

r. Ismo