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Burp Suite Essentials
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Burp Suite Essentials

by Akash Mahajan
November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
144 pages
3h 6m
English
Packt Publishing
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Automatic backups

We can and should back up our work in Burp. We can set this as an automated action in Suite Options | Misc under Automatic Backup.

This option has saved my life and sanity multiple times. When I just started using Burp and was unaware of setting memory options while starting a few times, I had the software crash on me. This feature is incredibly useful if your work becomes part of a report that might be seen by others.

Two sensible options, along with enabling automatic backups, are to choose a folder on a partition with enough free disk space, and ideally backup only in-scope elements.

I personally back up the folder to an external drive using my operating system backup program just in case there is a catastrophic disk failure. ...

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