File & Document ManagementPurpose
1.2. Facilitates compliance with industry standards for digital archiving and protects copyright by automatedly storing originals and edits securely.
1.3. Enables teams to collaborate asynchronously with seamless automation of updated asset stacking and archiving as soon as changes occur.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Scheduled time-trigger (e.g., nightly, hourly).
2.3. File modification events, including renaming, moving, or metadata changes.
2.4. Manual trigger from a dashboard or via email command.
2.5. Completion of creative workflow/project milestone as per project management platform status update.
Platform Variants
• Feature/Setting: "Drive API—Files: Watch" to automate backup on file change; configure Google Apps Script or OAuth2 for events.
3.2. Dropbox
• Feature/Setting: "Files Webhook" to automate monitoring and instant backup upon file change or upload.
3.3. OneDrive
• Feature/Setting: "Graph API—delta" for automating incremental sync and backup deployment on asset change.
3.4. Box
• Feature/Setting: "Box Events API" to automate triggers for instant asset backups.
3.5. Amazon S3
• Feature/Setting: "S3 PutObject event" triggers Lambda automation for newly uploaded assets.
3.6. Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
• Feature/Setting: "Blob Created Event Grid" automates the invocation of backup actions for creative files.
3.7. Backblaze B2
• Feature/Setting: "B2 API—b2_upload_file" automates direct backups with event-based triggers.
3.8. Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage
• Feature/Setting: "Wasabi S3 Compatible API—PutObject" automates hot storage of assets whenever new files are detected.
3.9. Creative Cloud (Adobe CC)
• Feature/Setting: "Creative Cloud API—Asset Events" automates backup to external storage when files update.
3.10. pCloud
• Feature/Setting: "Public Upload API" automates replication to pCloud upon changes in watched source folders.
3.11. Egnyte
• Feature/Setting: "Egnyte API—File Events" automates backup to ensure creative document redundancy.
3.12. Synology NAS
• Feature/Setting: "File Station API—event listener" automates NAS backup with incremental syncs.
3.13. QNAP NAS
• Feature/Setting: "myQNAPcloud Link—Backup Trigger" automates the execution of backup tasks on asset modification.
3.14. FTP/SFTP Servers
• Feature/Setting: "inotify on Linux or FileZilla Server hooks" automate script-based backup initiation.
3.15. Apple iCloud Drive
• Feature/Setting: "iCloud Drive API—filesDidChangeEvent" automates asset replication to secondary storage destinations.
3.16. SmugMug
• Feature/Setting: "SmugMug API—album.image.uploaded event" automates triggers for backing up photographic assets elsewhere.
3.17. Flickr
• Feature/Setting: "Flickr API—onPhotoUpload" automates cross-platform archiving.
3.18. GitHub
• Feature/Setting: "Git LFS API—push events" automates versioned backup for design files and large creative assets.
3.19. Nextcloud
• Feature/Setting: "Nextcloud Webhook—file_created" automates backup copying to external clouds or servers.
3.20. Google Photos
• Feature/Setting: "Google Photos Library API—newMediaItemCreated" automates saves to other backup locations.
Benefits
4.2. Automated backups ensure assets are always up-to-date with minimum lag.
4.3. Automating retention, versioning, and redundancy increases creative workflow reliability.
4.4. Streamlined asset management and faster asset retrieval through automated tagging and archiving.
4.5. Automatedly fulfills regulatory or client contract requirements for data security and continuity.
4.6. Accelerates creative recovery processes and reduces downtime in the event of accidental deletion or hardware failure.
4.7. Facilitates automatable collaboration by providing immediate backup for shared creative folders and teams.