What is considered a full back up of Search Head?

[pfabrizi]

I am reading the upgrade instructions for ES 5.0. It indicates to take a full backup of the search head. Is that just copying /opt/splunk to a backup location?

Thanks!

[skoelpin · Accepted solution]

Yes. The data lives on the indexers (with the exception of a summary index) and all your knowledge objects live on the search head. So you can simply take a backup of /opt/splunk and you will have a complete backup of all your knowledge objects which consist of saved searches, dashboards, extractions, lookups, etc..

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/VMW/3.4.1/User/KnowledgeObjects

[pfabrizi]

Thank You!

[adonio]

that will do