Hi @felipesodre , when your bucket completely exceed the retention time (also the earliest event in the bucket) or the bucket reaches the maxSize it can be discarded or moved to offline in a different folder. As described at https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.1.1/Admin/Indexesconf , it dependa on the parameter coldToFrozenScript that specifies a script to run when data is to leave the splunk index system, in other words, what happens to the bucket after the retention period. If, using a script, you move your Cold Bucket to offline, you can re use them copying them in the Thawed path. Otherwise you can discard them and the entire bucket is deleted. You can find more details in this document https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.1.1/Indexer/Setaretirementandarchivingpolicy Ciao. Giuseppe
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