Restore Tenable Agent

Using Tenable Agent CLI Commands , you can use a previous backup of Tenable Agent to restore later on any system, even if it is a different operating system. When you back up Tenable Agent, you preserve your settings. Tenable Agent does not restore 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.

Before you begin:

To restore Tenable Agent:

  1. Access Tenable Agent from a command terminal.

  2. Stop your Tenable Agent service.

    For example:

    # systemctl stop nessusagent

    Tenable Agent terminates all processes.

  3. Restore Tenable Agent from the backup file you previously saved:

    > nessuscli backup --restore path/to/<backup_filename>

    Tenable Agent restores your backup.

  4. Stop and start your Tenable Agent service.

    For example:

    # systemctl stop nessusagent

    # systemctl start nessusagent

    Tenable Agent begins initializing and uses settings from the backup.