Automate Your n8n Workflow Backups to GitHub
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Effortlessly safeguard your n8n workflows by automating regular backups directly to your GitHub repository. Ensure your automation logic is always version-controlled and readily available.
About This Workflow
This n8n workflow automates the critical process of backing up your n8n workflows to a designated GitHub repository. Leveraging the power of n8n's robust node ecosystem, it fetches workflow data, compares it with existing backups in GitHub, and either creates a new file or updates an existing one. This ensures your workflow configurations are consistently versioned, providing a safety net against accidental deletions, configuration errors, or system failures. By scheduling this workflow, you gain peace of mind knowing your automation logic is reliably stored and easily retrievable.
Key Features
- Automated Workflow Backups: Schedule regular backups of all your n8n workflows.
- GitHub Integration: Seamlessly push workflow JSON files to a specified GitHub repository.
- Version Control: Maintain a history of your workflow changes directly within GitHub.
- Smart Update Logic: Detects changes and either creates new files or updates existing ones.
- Configurable Repository: Easily set your GitHub owner, repository name, and path for backups.
How To Use
- Schedule Trigger: Configure the 'Schedule Trigger' node to define how often backups should run (e.g., daily, hourly).
- Globals: Use the 'Globals' node to set your GitHub
owner,nameof the repository, and the desiredpathwithin the repository for storing workflow backups. - n8n Node: Connect the 'n8n' node to fetch all your active workflows.
- Loop Over Items: Employ the 'Loop Over Items' node to process each fetched workflow individually.
- GitHub (Get File): Configure the first 'GitHub' node to
getthe workflow file from your repository. This step checks if a backup already exists. - If Node: Use the 'If' node to check if an error occurred during the
getoperation (meaning the file doesn't exist). - GitHub (Create File): If the file doesn't exist (based on the 'If' node), connect the 'Create new file and commit' GitHub node to save the current workflow as a new file.
- Code Node: If the file does exist, use the 'Code' node to decode the content fetched from GitHub.
- If1 Node: Configure the 'If1' node to compare the fetched file content with the current workflow's JSON. This determines if an update is necessary.
- GitHub (Update File): If the 'If1' node detects a difference, connect the 'Update file content and commit' GitHub node to push the updated workflow content.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "0e2b0576-7b5a-4630-b771-7dcd5aaab0ed",
"name": "Automate Your n8n Workflow Backups to GitHub",
"nodes": 27,
"category": "DevOps",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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DevOps_Master_X
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Specializing in CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and Kubernetes automations.
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