Migrate from Centos to Ubuntu

[PIETRO_CENTANNI]

Hi

I have need to migrate Splunk, with all the bucket index, from a server CentOs to server ubuntu.
On the new server is not yet installed Splunk.

From documentation is sufficient copy the entire contents of the directory $ SPLUNK_HOME and install Splunk.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Installation/MigrateaSplunkinstance

But i don't understand the different from install and start because is same command.

Can you explain best?

Thanks

[PIETRO_CENTANNI]

Ok thanks,
so the copy overwrite the installation files?

[gfreitas]

Hi,

The best approach is to install splunk on your Ubuntu server then copy all the contents to the new server and then start splunk.

Regards

[gfreitas]

Pietro,

Yes you overwrite the new files with your old splunk install.

[PIETRO_CENTANNI]

Perfect, thanks