Search Head Cluster - default.old directories

[BP9906]

Everytime I change something and deploy an app change to the SH cluster, I'm left with default.old.<date> folders that are being replicated to the indexers and thus polluting disk space.

Any way to limit the retention on these dir's?

[risgupta_splunk]

This issue is a known bug and will be getting fixed in 6.6 Version of Splunk release.

[jonrsplunk]

Is there a setting i splunk to limit how many generations of these to keep?
Or a setting for how old backup directories to keep?

[greich]

I guess, the question is: is it safe/when is it safe to prune the older directories? are they only some sort of "backups" or are they used actively during replication for comparison purposes?

[Giada8989]

You mean that the default.old. folders are being replicated to the search heads not to the indexers