{"id":357,"date":"2012-08-31T11:02:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T16:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2013-01-19T10:41:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T15:41:14","slug":"nessus-migrating-users-to-a-new-install","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/31\/nessus-migrating-users-to-a-new-install\/","title":{"rendered":"Nessus Migrating Users to a new install"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had to wipe my existing OS and had to reinstall Nessus on the new BT5R3 image. However, I still wanted all my previous scan data and users to be unaffected in the new OS. So how did I do that? Here’s how:<\/p>\n

Take a backup and restore the following folders on the new install:<\/p>\n

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  1. Users Folder (\/opt\/nessus\/var\/nessus\/users)<\/li>\n
  2. Master.key (\/opt\/nessus\/var\/nessus\/master.key)<\/li>\n
  3. Policies.db (\/opt\/nessus\/var\/nessus\/policies.db)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you do get an error after this follow these steps to get rid of errors and just reactivate the nessus feed as follows:<\/p>\n

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    1. service nessusd stop<\/li>\n
    2. \/opt\/nessus\/sbin\/nessus-fix –reset<\/li>\n
    3. \/opt\/nessus\/bin\/nessus-fetch –register [activation code]<\/li>\n
    4. \/opt\/nessus\/sbin\/nessusd -R<\/li>\n
    5. service nessusd start<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      I had to wipe my existing OS and had to reinstall Nessus on the new BT5R3 image. However, I still wanted all my previous scan data and users to be unaffected in the new OS. So how did I do that? Here’s how: Take a backup and restore the following folders on the new install: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[234,451,199,200,450],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howto","tag-backtrack","tag-migrate","tag-nessus","tag-security","tag-upgrade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}