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For the sake of DR or Backup, How do I backup or Recover say my Splunk Deployment Server or Cluster Master please?

SamHTexas
Builder

For the sake of DR or Backup, How do I backup or Recover say, my Splunk Deployment Server or Cluster Master please? If I may also ask what about SHs, Indexers and so on please. Thank u in advance.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Backup of static information is covered in https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.3/Admin/Backupconfigurations . This applies to all instance types.

Indexers are trickier because the hot buckets cannot be backed up.  That's why we have indexer clustering - so Splunk can back up itself.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Backup of static information is covered in https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.3/Admin/Backupconfigurations . This applies to all instance types.

Indexers are trickier because the hot buckets cannot be backed up.  That's why we have indexer clustering - so Splunk can back up itself.

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