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Metasploit for Beginners
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Metasploit for Beginners

by Sagar Rahalkar
July 2017
Beginner
190 pages
4h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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Backing up the database

Imagine you have worked for long hours on a complex penetration testing assignment using the Metasploit Framework. Now, for some unfortunate reason, your Metasploit instance crashes and fails to start. It would be very painful to rework from scratch on a new Metasploit instance! This is where the backup option in the Metasploit Framework comes to the rescue. The db_export command, as shown in the following screenshot, exports all data within the database to an external XML file.

You can then keep the exported XML file safe in case you need to restore the data later after failure:

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