Scheduled backup of facility operational data

Purpose

1.1. Ensure reliable, scheduled, and error-free backups of operational data from acrobatic diving pool facilities (including booking, usage, safety, maintenance, staff logs, water quality, customer feedback).
1.2. Meet compliance, disaster recovery, and analytics requirements by maintaining secure offsite data copies.
1.3. Enable prompt restoration and reporting with automatic, timestamped backups to aligned formats and storage locations.
1.4. Provide integration to analytics platforms for performance tracking and long-term data retention.
1.5. Maintain uninterrupted access to historical data for audits, improvements, and regulatory examination.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Time-based schedules (hourly, daily, weekly).
2.2. Manual initiation (on-demand backup).
2.3. Event-based triggers (e.g., after closing shift, end-of-week reports).
2.4. On detection of data update or status change in facility management system.
2.5. API webhook signals from data-collecting platforms or IoT monitoring devices.

Platform Variants

3.1. Microsoft Power Automate
• Feature/Setting: “Schedule – Recurrence” trigger, plus “Copy file”/“Export data” with SharePoint/OneDrive
• Sample: Set schedule for nightly exports from SQL Server to OneDrive.

3.2. Zapier
• Feature/Setting: “Schedule by Zapier”+“Google Drive – Upload File” action
• Sample: Trigger backup workflow, push data CSV to Drive every midnight.

3.3. Integromat (Make)
• Feature/Setting: “Scheduler” module with “Database – Export Rows”
• Sample: Every 24 hours, extract MySQL records to Dropbox.

3.4. AWS Lambda
• Feature/Setting: Scheduled Lambda function with S3 PutObject API
• Sample: Configure cron to backup DynamoDB to S3 nightly.

3.5. Google Cloud Functions
• Feature/Setting: Cloud Scheduler invoking function to save Firestore exports to Google Cloud Storage
• Sample: Set weekly Cloud Scheduler cron job.

3.6. Google Apps Script
• Feature/Setting: Time-driven triggers + DriveApp.createFile()
• Sample: Hourly backup of Google Sheets to new Drive file.

3.7. AirTable Automations
• Feature/Setting: “At a scheduled time” automation with “Create CSV” action
• Sample: Export tables to CSV and email/send to storage.

3.8. Dropbox API
• Feature/Setting: /files/upload endpoint
• Sample: Connect system cron job with API call to /files/upload every evening.

3.9. Box Platform
• Feature/Setting: Box CLI “folders:upload” with OS-level scheduling
• Sample: Nightly script to upload operational logs to Box.

3.10. Backblaze B2 Cloud
• Feature/Setting: B2 upload API, coupled with server backup scripts
• Sample: Automated batch upload to B2 buckets daily.

3.11. OneDrive API
• Feature/Setting: driveItem – PUT /content API
• Sample: Automated export of daily operational MySQL dump to OneDrive.

3.12. SQL Server Agent
• Feature/Setting: Scheduled job with backup database step
• Sample: Configured for midnight backup to network share.

3.13. Google BigQuery
• Feature/Setting: “Scheduled Query” to export table data to GCS
• Sample: Export daily usage data to Google Cloud Storage.

3.14. Oracle Cloud Autonomous Data Warehouse
• Feature/Setting: “Automated Backup” policy, Object Storage export
• Sample: Nightly export to Oracle Cloud Object Storage.

3.15. IBM Cloud Functions
• Feature/Setting: Scheduled triggers + Cloud Object Storage API
• Sample: Auto-trigger to backup JSON logs to object storage.

3.16. Azure Logic Apps
• Feature/Setting: Recurrence trigger with “Azure Blob Storage – Create blob”
• Sample: Set multi-facility export to Azure Blob nightly.

3.17. Asana
• Feature/Setting: “Scheduled Export” from reporting dashboard
• Sample: Weekly backup sent via email or to linked storage.

3.18. Notion API
• Feature/Setting: Scheduled automation with /pages endpoint
• Sample: Nightly JSON export of diving team progress logs.

3.19. Smartsheet
• Feature/Setting: Data Shuttle “Offload” workflows on interval
• Sample: Extract facility schedules to CSV by schedule.

3.20. Salesforce
• Feature/Setting: Data Export Service, weekly/daily export policy
• Sample: Schedule export of diving member list and activity logs.

3.21. Slack (as notification endpoint)
• Feature/Setting: Scheduled workflow, File Upload action
• Sample: Send backup completion file or logs to facility admin channel.

Benefits

4.1. Guarantees consistency, compliance, and rapid recovery from outages or data loss.
4.2. Reduces manual workload for staff, boosting efficiency and reliability.
4.3. Enables centralized, secure, and access-controlled data storage.
4.4. Supports integration with analytics, regulatory, and auditing processes.
4.5. Ensures up-to-date historical records, contributing to improved facility management and customer experience.