Perform a Configuration Backup

Required Tenable Security Center User Role: Root user

For more information about the backup and restore process and the configurations included in a configuration backup, see Backup and Restore.

Before you begin:

If you uploaded custom plugins, save a copy of your custom plugins in a safe location.

To perform a backup of your Tenable Security Center Director configuration:

Log in to Tenable Security Center Director via the command line interface (CLI).
Stop Tenable Security Center Director with the following command:
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```
# /bin/systemctl stop SecurityCenter
```
Tenable Security Center Director stops.
In the CLI in Tenable Security Center Director, do one of the following:
- To save the configuration backup file to a local directory, run the following command, where [local directory path] is the local directory where you want to save the backup file:
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```
/opt/sc/support/bin/php /opt/sc/src/tools/backupSCConfiguration.php -l [local directory path]
```
  For example:
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```
/opt/sc/support/bin/php /opt/sc/src/tools/backupSCConfiguration.php -l /tmp/
```
- To save the configuration backup file to a remote directory, run the following command, where [remote directory absolute path] is the absolute path to the remote directory where you want to save the backup file:
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```
/opt/sc/support/bin/php /opt/sc/src/tools/backupSCConfiguration.php -r [user]@[host]:[remote absolute path to configuration backups directory]
```
  For example:
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```
/opt/sc/support/bin/php /opt/sc/src/tools/backupSCConfiguration.php -r [email protected]:/tmp/
```
Tenable Security Center creates the configuration backup file and saves it to the specified directory.

Tip: The configuration backup file name includes the backup date and time, the Tenable Security Center hostname, and the Tenable Security Center version (for example, SC-config-20211101-165111-sc-hostname-5_20_0.tar.gz).
Start Tenable Security Center Director with the following command:
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```
# /bin/systemctl start SecurityCenter
```
Tenable Security Center Director starts.

What to do next:

Perform a backup for your managed Tenable Security Center instances, as described in Perform a Configuration Backup in the Tenable Security Center User Guide.
(Optional) Restore the configuration backup file, as described in Restore a Configuration Backup.