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PRA - Auto backup

  • February 27, 2025
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  • Apprentice
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Hi,

I am looking for an article/reference/document that could help me setup a backup for PRA software configuration automatically. This means, I am planning to set a schedule to backup the PRA software. Any thoughts and help are greatly appreciated!  Thank you.

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  • BeyondTrust Employee
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  • February 27, 2025

Hello ​@SolB - This is handled through our Integration Client software. Please find details for this here: https://docs.beyondtrust.com/pra/docs/integration-client.

Through this software, you can set a schedule to backup the PRA instance, and offload session data to keep them longer then 90days.


  • Rising Star
  • 11 replies
  • March 11, 2025

Another option is to use an automated script or application (like Ansible) to run commands against the BTPRA API (they have a specific API for backup commands) and retrieve the backup that way. Installing and using their Integration Client is quite a bit of work if you are only looking to do automated backups. Refer to https://docs.beyondtrust.com/pra/docs/backup-api for more info. 


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  • Apprentice
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  • March 24, 2025

Thank you ​@PhillC. I suspect this requires a separate windows box to install the integration software client? If so, I agree with ​@idontwanna , this will take a lot of effort.


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  • BeyondTrust Employee
  • 169 replies
  • March 24, 2025

Hello ​@SolB, I understand. However, any current auto-backup system would require an extra external server somewhere, as the appliance itself cannot run the auto-backup itself.

Maybe this can be raised as a feature request, in the Ideas Portal at the top of the screen, for something our teams here can look into.