Automatically back up project data at set intervals

**Purpose**

1.1. Ensure all project files, designs, schedules, sensor data, and documentation regarding agricultural engineering projects are securely, redundantly stored.
1.2. Automate the backup of critical data to prevent loss from hardware failure, accidents, or cyber incidents.
1.3. Maintain regulatory compliance and make historical information readily available for audits, project reviews, or client reporting.
1.4. Enable restoration of project milestones, field maps, blueprints, and equipment calibration logs at any time.

**Trigger Conditions**

2.1. Scheduled intervals (e.g., every day at 2:00 AM, every Friday evening, or every change detected).
2.2. Project/task completion events (completion status/specific milestone reached).
2.3. Real-time triggers (new file uploads or updates in designated project folders).
2.4. Manual backup initiated from user interface.

**Platform Variants**

3.1. Dropbox
• Feature/Setting: Use /files/upload endpoint to push files to cloud storage based on schedule.
3.2. Google Drive
• Feature/Setting: Use Drive API ‘Files.create’ with batch scheduler to save files and folders.
3.3. OneDrive
• Feature/Setting: Call ‘/drive/root:/path:/content’ to upload backups at set intervals.
3.4. Box
• Feature/Setting: Configure ‘Create Folder’ and ‘Upload File’ via Box API on daily triggers.
3.5. AWS S3
• Feature/Setting: Use ‘PutObject’ operation with CRON job logic for regular uploads.
3.6. Microsoft SharePoint
• Feature/Setting: Use REST ‘Add’ to document library through scheduled flows.
3.7. FTP/SFTP Server
• Feature/Setting: Automate ‘PUT’ file transfers using secure credentials and schedule scripts.
3.8. GitHub
• Feature/Setting: ‘Repos Contents API’ to update backup branches with project files.
3.9. GitLab
• Feature/Setting: Use ‘Repository Files API’ to commit backups tagged by date.
3.10. Amazon RDS (for databases)
• Feature/Setting: Schedule ‘CreateDBSnapshot’ for DB backups via API.
3.11. Google Cloud Storage
• Feature/Setting: Use ‘objects.insert’ method with a cloud function trigger.
3.12. Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage
• Feature/Setting: S3-compatible ‘PUT’ for timed file transfer.
3.13. Backblaze B2
• Feature/Setting: ‘b2_upload_file’ API call in automated interval jobs.
3.14. Zoho WorkDrive
• Feature/Setting: Use ‘/files/upload’ endpoint set to a recurring trigger.
3.15. Egnyte
• Feature/Setting: ‘Upload API’ for periodic file backup flows.
3.16. pCloud
• Feature/Setting: Use ‘/uploadfile’ API with scheduled execution.
3.17. Mega
• Feature/Setting: Automated ‘upload’ action via SDK scripting.
3.18. Azure Blob Storage
• Feature/Setting: Use ‘Put Blob’ with time-based triggers.
3.19. IBM Cloud Object Storage
• Feature/Setting: ‘Upload Part’ API within interval automation.
3.20. Nextcloud
• Feature/Setting: Use ‘WebDAV PUT’ over cron-triggered scripts.
3.21. OwnCloud
• Feature/Setting: Automate upload via ‘WebDAV’ at pre-set intervals.
3.22. Synology NAS
• Feature/Setting: ‘Hyper Backup’ task scheduled through DSM, or API scripting.
3.23. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage
• Feature/Setting: ‘PutObject’ scheduled job for new project data.
3.24. Tresorit
• Feature/Setting: Utilize API endpoints for secure timed uploads.

**Benefits**

4.1. Minimizes risk of accidental data loss or corruption.
4.2. Simplifies data recovery processes for ongoing and completed agricultural projects.
4.3. Ensures continual compliance with client, legal, or industry-standard data retention policies.
4.4. Improves operational continuity and reliability for engineering teams.
4.5. Frees professionals from manual backup tasks, reallocating time to high-value project work.