Per index archiving

[alexander_lucas]

If I define this in .../local/indexes.conf


[default]
coldToFrozenDir = $SPLUNK_DB/frozenArchive


Will Splunk roll "frozen" buckets from all indexes inside var/lib/splunk/frozenArchive? If so, can this cause conflicts or is there auto-suffix/prefix for file names? My idea was to have a general coldToFrozenDir rather than per index. This would (in theory) take care of new indexes.

[alexander_lucas]

it would still be nice to have a $SPUNK_INDEX variable so that one could add a generic coldToFrozenDir var

[gkanapathy · Accepted solution]

I'm not sure this will work as you want, but I believe that if you simply put coldToFrozenDir = $SPLUNK_DB/frozenArchive in the indexes.conf file at the top, not under a stanza header, it will have the effect you're looking for. However, please note that once the buckets are rolled into the directory, there is nothing that will tell you what index it originally came from. They will still work and still be usable, but the index name will be lost.

[alexander_lucas]

Perhaps there is a special variable for index names?
e.g.
coldToFrozenDir = $SPLUNK_DB/frozenArchive/$SPLUNK_INDEX
then the structure would be:
.../frozenArchive/main
.../frozenArchive/_audit
...[etc]