I will try standing up a new instance of Splunk and copying over the $SPLUNK_HOME\var\lib\splunk folder to the new installation from the instance of Splunk that I have backed up.   Will this also copy over the configuration from the old server?  Part of the issue is that the old server had a free license which is violation, which is why I am working to setup a new Splunk server without that problem.  Good point about Linux.  I may try installing Splunk on that platform and see how it does. Leobsksd ... View more