Restore Tenable Nessus Agent

Using Tenable Nessus Agent CLI Commands , you can use a previous backup of Tenable Nessus Agent to restore later on any system, even if it is a different operating system. When you back up Tenable Nessus Agent, you preserve your settings. Tenable Nessus 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 Nessus Agent, you must reconfigure any Tenable Nessus 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 Nessus Agent:

  1. Access Tenable Nessus Agent from a command terminal.

  2. Stop your Tenable Nessus Agent service.

    For example:

    # systemctl stop nessusagent

    Tenable Nessus Agent terminates all processes.

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

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

    Tenable Nessus Agent restores your backup.

  4. Stop and start your Tenable Nessus Agent service.

    For example:

    # systemctl stop nessusagent

    # systemctl start nessusagent

    Tenable Nessus Agent begins initializing and uses settings from the backup.