Will moving index files via rsync to another server count against my license?

[a212830]

Hi,

I have a datacenter shutting down, but I need to keep some index data that is on one of the servers. If I rsync the files to another brand-new server, and start-up splunk, will this be seen as new data and count against my license? I'm using rsync to move the data. Nothing new has been written to it in over a month, but the customer decided at the last minute that they want to keep some of it.

[dcarmack_splunk · Accepted solution]

Migrating data from one Splunk instance to another is well documented and should not count against your license.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.1511/Installation/MigrateaSplunkinstance