Automatically back up your workflow automations to Nextcloud daily

Every day your automation workflows are saved to Nextcloud automatically, keeping the last 7 days and deleting older backups.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per one per workflow.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Run-Time Knowledge (14)

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Starts itA stepRuns once per itemA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
File & Cloud Storage
Connects
Nextcloud

The problem it solves

If your automation setup breaks or gets accidentally changed, you have no easy way to restore it without redoing the work from scratch. Manually exporting and saving backups every day is easy to forget and easy to lose track of.

Who it fits

Businesses running their own automation systems who need a safety net for their workflow setup.

How it works

  1. Backup runs automatically once a day
  2. All current workflows are collected and converted into files
  3. Files are saved to a dedicated backup folder in Nextcloud
  4. Backups older than 7 days are automatically deleted
What you get

Workflow backups ready if something breaks

You get a fresh backup of all your automation workflows saved to Nextcloud every day, with older copies cleared out automatically.

What you get

A rolling 7-day archive of workflow backups stored safely in Nextcloud.

What you need

A Nextcloud account with API access and your automation platform.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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