- auto tag and autoclass for hourly, daily, weekly and monthly backups to S3 to allow lifecycle by frequency management (see github repo for terraform example to leverage this and wiki https://github.com/splunk/splunkconf-backup/wiki/splunkconf%E2%80%90backup-cost-optimisation-with-tag-and-frequency
- autobackup at Splunk start (following kvdump recovery when applicable). This is especially helpful in rsync mode and for first time users
- autopurge before backups to prevent disk starvation situation when running a full backup (like at Splunk start)
- updated backup exclusions for 9.2