IT & Communications AutomationPurpose
1.2. Automate periodic secure backups of corporate databases, file systems, and communications data, ensuring regulatory, compliance, and operational continuity.
1.3. Automatically generate and distribute backup status reports, error logs, and summaries to IT stakeholders, automating audit-readiness.
1.4. Automate backup verification and validation procedures to guarantee data integrity and disaster recovery readiness across hybrid-cloud infrastructure.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Automated trigger when new data is added, modified, or deleted in critical repositories.
2.3. Manual IT/admin trigger via dashboard or API endpoint.
2.4. Automated response to system alerts or incidents requiring immediate backup (e.g., ransomware detection).
2.5. Automating backup testing or reporting upon completion of backup jobs.
Platform Variants
• Feature/Setting: Configure periodic AWS resource backup jobs using AWS Backup API (`start-backup-job`).
3.2. Azure Backup
• Feature/Setting: Schedule Recovery Services Vault policies using Azure Automation Runbooks + REST API (`start-AzRecoveryServicesBackupJob`).
3.3. Google Cloud Storage
• Feature/Setting: Automate scheduled snapshots and object versioning via `storage.objects.insert` API.
3.4. Veeam
• Feature/Setting: Initiate backup jobs with Veeam RESTful API (`/jobs/{jobId}/start`).
3.5. Commvault
• Feature/Setting: Automate backup and reporting using Commvault Command Center API (`BackupNowTask`).
3.6. IBM Spectrum Protect
• Feature/Setting: Scheduled backups via Operations Center API (`/api/backup/` endpoint).
3.7. Rubrik
• Feature/Setting: Automate SLA Domains for backups via Rubrik API (`POST /sla_domain`).
3.8. Cohesity
• Feature/Setting: Automated protection jobs using Cohesity REST API (`createProtectionJob`).
3.9. Acronis Cyber Protect
• Feature/Setting: Automated backup scheduling with API (`/api/backup/schedules`).
3.10. Dell EMC Data Domain
• Feature/Setting: Use REST API to automate backup jobs (`/api/backup/job/execute`).
3.11. NetApp ONTAP
• Feature/Setting: Automate snapshot policies through ONTAP REST API (`/api/snapshots`).
3.12. Barracuda Backup
• Feature/Setting: Automate and monitor backup jobs (`/api/v1/backups`).
3.13. Google Workspace Admin
• Feature/Setting: Automate Gmail/Drive backups via `admin.directory.user` with third-party backup API.
3.14. Microsoft 365
• Feature/Setting: Automated SharePoint/OneDrive backups through Graph API (`/backup/operation`).
3.15. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Feature/Setting: Automate block volume/DB backups using OCI API (`/blockVolumesActions/backup`).
3.16. Backblaze B2
• Feature/Setting: Automate uploads with B2 API (`b2_upload_file`).
3.17. Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage
• Feature/Setting: Automate S3 API compatible backup jobs (`PutObject`, `LifecycleConfig`).
3.18. ServiceNow
• Feature/Setting: Automate backup status ticket creation via Table API (`/api/now/table/incident`).
3.19. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Automated backup report notifications with Incoming Webhooks API.
3.20. PagerDuty
• Feature/Setting: Automate alerting on backup failures with Events API (`/v2/enqueue`).
3.21. Elasticsearch
• Feature/Setting: Automate snapshot repository backups using Snapshot API (`_snapshot`).
3.22. Jira
• Feature/Setting: Automate ticket creation for failed/success backups via Jira REST API (`/rest/api/2/issue`).
Benefits
4.2. Automates compliance with corporate and industry regulations (SOX, GDPR, etc.).
4.3. Enhances corporate data resilience via automation of verification and validation tasks.
4.4. Provides automated auditing capabilities and robust backup reporting for internal and external stakeholders.
4.5. Automates incident-driven backups and rapid disaster response to enhance IT security posture.
4.6. Increases operational uptime and reduces IT staff workload through full-cycle data backup automation.