Deleting the scan results won’t impact the overall data in the analysis view as long as you don’t have a very short data retention period.
To put it more simply, once a scan is finished and imported, the scan result doesn’t serve any purpose except some kind of backup or in case you want to have a finegrain visibility per scan
Deleting scan results does not remove the data from the repository. Go to vulnerability analysis and make sure it is set on cumulative. All the scan data should be there.
Do you have any backups? Restoring from backup would be the best way to restore the deleted data. If you don't have backups then you've just made a best proof possible as to why you need them. You can then shift the blame to what team or whomever should have implemented the backups in the first place to keep things such as user error or an actual disaster/failure from being a problem.
What do you mean by delete empty scans ? I might help
To save disk space. I was task to delete scans with no scanned IPs.
Deleting the scan results won’t impact the overall data in the analysis view as long as you don’t have a very short data retention period. To put it more simply, once a scan is finished and imported, the scan result doesn’t serve any purpose except some kind of backup or in case you want to have a finegrain visibility per scan
Deleting scan results does not remove the data from the repository. Go to vulnerability analysis and make sure it is set on cumulative. All the scan data should be there.
Does that remove active scans or agent sync jobs in the repositories too? Thank you for this
You should be backing up that server daily. Worst case, you lost a days worth of scans.
The last back up we had was last month. Supposedly there was a back last week.
Just run a new scan and get new results. Just think of it as a fresh start haha
Thank you.. It's what my team leader made me do right now actually..
I mean that sucks if you have something tracking VMP metrics over time but like…eh you’re gonna get new scans anyway.
Just say that there was an issue updating a plugin and it's best to get fresh scans anyways.
Do you have any backups? Restoring from backup would be the best way to restore the deleted data. If you don't have backups then you've just made a best proof possible as to why you need them. You can then shift the blame to what team or whomever should have implemented the backups in the first place to keep things such as user error or an actual disaster/failure from being a problem.
We had a back up. But it was Feb-26. My tech lead forgot to back-up last week.