Back up your automation workflows to Google Drive automatically

Saves a copy of every active automation to Google Drive on a schedule and archives old ones automatically.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Every path runs; runs once per active workflow.

Pattern: Parallel Split (2) ยท Multiple Instances without Synchronization (12)

flowchart TD trig(["scheduled backup run"]):::trigtime s0["list active workflows"]:::task s1[["save copy of each workflow"]]:::mi s2[("upload backup files")]:::store trig --> s0 s1 --> s2 gx{"+ backup and archive tasks"}:::gate s0 --> gx p00["save and upload copies"]:::task gx -->|"backup path"| p00 p10["move tagged workflows to archive"]:::task gx -->|"archive path"| p10 p00 --> s1 p10 --> s1 out[/"dated backups stored in drive"/]:::out pay{{"workflows recoverable if lost"}}:::pay s2 --> out out --> pay classDef task fill:#e7f6fe,stroke:#34b8f0,color:#2c2a29 classDef svc fill:#f6f8fa,stroke:#7c8795,color:#2c2a29 classDef mi fill:#e7f6fe,stroke:#0079a8,color:#2c2a29,stroke-width:2px classDef human fill:#fff,stroke:#0079a8,color:#0079a8 classDef store fill:#f6f8fa,stroke:#0079a8,color:#2c2a29 classDef trig fill:#00a4eb,stroke:#0079a8,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef trigtime fill:#00a4eb,stroke:#0079a8,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef trigdata fill:#8ad4f5,stroke:#0079a8,color:#06314c,font-weight:bold classDef gate fill:#fff,stroke:#e8a23d,color:#6b4708,font-weight:bold classDef out fill:#1f9d6b,stroke:#167a53,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef pay fill:#06314c,stroke:#021f33,color:#fff
Starts itA stepRuns once per itemA record or sheetEvery pathResultPayoff
Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
Document Processing & OCRFile & Cloud Storage
Connects
Google Drive

The problem it solves

If your automation platform ever goes down or someone accidentally deletes a workflow, you could lose hours of setup work with no way to get it back. Keeping manual backups is the kind of task that always gets put off until it's too late.

Who it fits

Operations teams and automation builders who rely on a library of automated workflows.

How it works

  1. Runs on a schedule you choose
  2. Saves a copy of every active workflow as a file
  3. Uploads each file to a designated Google Drive folder
  4. Moves any workflow tagged for archiving into a separate folder and removes it from the live system
What you get

Workflow libraries you never lose

Your active automations get backed up to Drive on a schedule, with old ones tidied away.

What you get

A dated backup of every workflow in Google Drive, with archived workflows kept separately and cleaned out of the live system.

What you need

A Google Drive account and access to 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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