Hello, I'm curious to know if you were able to successfully migrate from Windows to Linux? I opened a support ticket for help and they referred me to this forum posting, but the steps mentioned here are not sufficient and some steps seem out of order. For example, it says to copy the home directory from old to new server and then install splunk on new server, but wouldn't this just overwrite the files you copied over? After opening a second ticket with a different Splunk support rep, they suggested I (1) install a default splunk instance on new server (2) copy only the $SPLUNK_HOME\var\lib and $SPLUNK_HOME\etc directories, as well as the directory containing my cold search DBs. Lastly, they recommended I update my configuration (.conf) files to point to the new locations on the Linux server. However, received no specific guidance on which files to update other than the indexes.conf file. The final recommendation from Splunk support was to check *all* configuration files in $SPLUNK_HOME\etc directory. When I pointed out that there are over 300 configuration files in our $SPLUNK_HOME\etc directory, they confirmed that we must check and update all 300+ files, which is not feasible for us. At this point I've given up, but maybe someone else on here has had success?
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