Back Up Tenable Agent

Using Tenable Agent CLI Commands , you can back up your Tenable Agent to restore it later on any system, even if it is a different operating system. When you back up Tenable Agent, your settings are preserved. Tenable Agent does not back up scan results.

Note: If you perform a cross-platform backup and restore between Linux and Windows systems, after you restore Tenable Agent, you must reconfigure any Tenable Agent configurations that use schedules (for example, scan schedules). Schedules do not transfer correctly across these platforms because the operating systems use different timezone names.

To back up Tenable Agent:

  1. Access Tenable Agent from a command terminal.

  2. Create the Tenable Agent backup file:

    > nessuscli backup --create <backup_filename>

    Tenable Agent creates the backup file in the following directory:

    • Linux: /opt/nessus_agent/var/nessus
    • Windows: C:\ProgramData\Tenable\Nessus Agent\nessus\
    • Mac: /Library/NessusAgent/run/var/nessus/

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