Splunk Upgrade using tar method

[sanjubaba]

How to upgrade Splunk enterprise version using tar method?

Can someone guide me through the steps or documentation?

[thambisetty · Accepted solution]

Most of the time, I don't backup data unless customer insist to take backup and provides storage. but it's recommended to take backup of  $SPLUNK_HOME/etc in case you would like to revert to old version for any reason. In that case backup is required as there is no roll-back option in Splunk. 

[sanjubaba]

@thambisetty How to rollback changes if we face any issue during Splunk version upgradation?

Can you share me the documentation for it?

[sanjubaba]

@richgalloway Do we need to backup Splunk bucket folder before we proceed with Splunk version upgrade? Or we can directly upgrade without taking backup of bucket folder?

[richgalloway]

See https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.6/Installation/UpgradeonUNIX#Upgrade_Splunk_Enterpr...

[richgalloway]

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.6/Installation/UpgradeonUNIX#Upgrade_Splunk_Enterpr...