Back up your automation workflows to GitLab every day

Saves a backup copy of your automations to GitLab every day and alerts you if anything fails.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per one per automation; a person is alerted when a step fails.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances without Synchronization (12)

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Starts itA stepAn outside serviceRuns once per itemA personResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
Messaging & NotificationsDocument Processing & OCRFile & Cloud StorageDevOps & IT Operations
Connects
GitLabSlack

The problem it solves

If your automations disappear or get accidentally changed, you could lose critical business processes with no way to recover them. Manually exporting and saving backups is easy to forget and rarely happens consistently.

Who it fits

Operations or IT teams responsible for maintaining business automations.

How it works

  1. Runs automatically once a day
  2. Pulls a list of your active automations
  3. Compares them against what's already backed up in GitLab
  4. Saves any new or changed automation as a file in the repository
  5. Sends a message confirming the backup succeeded or flagging any failure
What you get

Automations that survive an accidental deletion

Your automations are copied to GitLab every day, so a deleted or broken workflow can be restored quickly and your team is alerted the moment anything fails.

What you get

A daily version-controlled backup of your automations in GitLab, with a confirmation message.

What you need

A GitLab account, access to your automation platform, and Slack.

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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