# Looking for Robot Project management and Backup Solutions

**URL:** <https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/looking-for-robot-project-management-and-backup-solutions/43150>\
**Category:** General Application Help: How do I?\
**Created:** [July 31, 2026, 10:16am UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/looking-for-robot-project-management-and-backup-solutions/43150 "2026-07-31T10:16:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![robin\_gdwl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.universal-robots.com/robin_gdwl/32/2676_2.png) [@robin\_gdwl](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/robin_gdwl)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 10:16am UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/looking-for-robot-project-management-and-backup-solutions/43150/1 "2026-07-31T10:16:38Z")

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Hello,  
I am currently in the process of documenting a multi-robot setup. This process is fully manual for now. Robots are backed up via usb, and documentation is generated with a mix of excel tables, plc-exports, pdfs and hand-written maintainance reports and changelogs.

Is there a solution that automates (some of) this?  
I am especially looking for this functionality:

- compare Programs and positions from one backup to the next
- compare installation from one backup to the next
- backup via Local network
- export I/O names and states as tables (pdf and csv)
- generate reports

Ideally the solution would work without internet connectivity. But if its necessary that is okay as well.  
I have seen some solutions but none of them really do what I need them to or have been discontinued.

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**Author:** ![properInproperizer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@properInproperizer](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/properInproperizer)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 11:11am UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/looking-for-robot-project-management-and-backup-solutions/43150/2 "2026-07-31T11:11:52Z")

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Hey

I assume, you are searching for a solution for Polyscope 5?

On our Polyscope 5 solution we so far also work with manual backup which is okay as there is just rare changes. We have now a Polyscope X solution where there are quite few changes and we are super happy about the new Robot API. With that we could easily automate puling all urpx’ with a few powershell lines. We compare the files with the last pull and if they differ, we backup them with a timestamp. URPX File Format is super convienient, LLM’s can extract information from it to document.

With Polyscope 5 I would build an automated backup solution by using the SFTP server to pull them. Diffing would be limited to the “compiled” script files of each urp.. I have no clue how to compare installations as they only exist in the propietary format there.

You might have a look into existing URCaps, probably you are not the first one with those thoughts 🙂

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**Author:** ![fairywang9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fairywang9](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/fairywang9)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2026, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/looking-for-robot-project-management-and-backup-solutions/43150/3 "2026-09-04T14:23:48Z")

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Thanks for outlining the requirements. Are you mainly using PolyScope 5, PolyScope X, or a mixed fleet?

For the comparisons, do you need a human-readable report of changed waypoints and installation settings, rather than just file-level differences? Which part of the current workflow takes the most time?