Configuration-only Backups

You can restore a configuration backup to resume normal Tenable Core operation quickly as part of your disaster recovery plan. Along with standard backups, you can also perform a configuration-only backup as an option next to your standard backups.

Note Performing a configuration-only backup in Tenable Nessus deployments also saves the scan data.

Note: For best performance after restoring a configuration backup, ensure the hostname associated with the configuration backup file matches the hostname on the receiving Tenable Core configuration.

Configuration-only backups do not include data (such as vulnerability data, trend data, licenses, or secure connection settings). When your repositories contain new vulnerability data, you can use your dashboards, reports, and analysis tools to assess your network.

Note: After you restore a configuration backup, Tenable recommends performing discovery scans to re-populate your repositories with vulnerability data.