Remote backup via RCP on remote directory - splunk/splunkconf-backup GitHub Wiki

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RCP schema

In this mode, local backups are copied via RCP (ie over SSH) to a remote host For this to be enable you may want to :

  • Set up ssh keys for passwordless connections
  • set up the following settings
    • REMOTETECHNO=3
    • REMOTEBACKUPDIR="remotedirectory"
    • RCPHOST
    • RCPREMOTEUSER if different from splunk user

Please note splunkconf-backup will also manage purging remote files according to remote retention setting and max remote size

You will also need splunkconf-backup v1.6 minimum for this feature