Back up your own workflows

Export every workflow on a schedule and push the files somewhere you control.

We have not yet run this one on the version the starting point pins, so the deploy button below starts a blank instance. We are not going to offer you a one-click workflow we have not tested ourselves.

Your workflows are yours, so this one exists to prove it. On a schedule, it exports every workflow as a file and pushes it wherever you say. It is also the honest answer to "what is your backup story": run this, and moving out is a copy rather than a project.

What it does

1. A schedule trigger fires weekly.
2. Every workflow is exported.
3. The files are pushed to the place you chose.
4. You get a short summary message.

What you supply

• Somewhere to put the files, such as a repository you own

Credentials are stored inside your own n8n, encrypted with a key that is generated and kept for you. We never see them and neither does anyone else.

Getting it running

Other starting points

• Blank canvas, an empty n8n, ready for whatever you already had in mind.
• Daily digest into chat, collect a few things every morning and post one tidy message to slack or telegram.
• Feed watcher, watch a feed and tell you when something new shows up, without checking it yourself.
• Form submissions into a table, catch a form submission and append it to a spreadsheet or a table you already use.