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Splunk index reconfiguration

jmheaton
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Is it possible to go from a linux splunk instance to a windows splunk instance while retaining all previous index data?

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matt
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araitz
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As long as the processor has the same endianness and you are not going from 64-bit to 32-bit, you should be fine.

jmheaton
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It would be the same hardware just going from CentOS to Windows server

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