Workflows has two cards to help with backing a flow or a folder:

• Flows – Export Flow
• Folders – Export Folder

Both cards work similarly. The Flows - Export Flow card creates a backup for a particular flow, and the Folders - Export Folder card creates a backup folder with one or more flows.

• Okta Workflows

Here is an example of a flow that uses the Export Folder card to create a backup of a folder and upload it to Google Drive. The flow is scheduled to run every Monday at 9 AM.

The flow has the following steps:

1. Run the flow on a schedule (Schedule Flow).
2. The Folders – Export Folder card creates a backup of a selected folder.
3. Choose a unique name for each backup. The Date & Time – Now, the card returns the current time.
4. Using the backup file name and the current time, the Text–Concatenate card creates a unique file name.
5. The last step is to upload the file to Google Drive using the Google Drive – Upload File card. Parent folder ID is specified in order to upload the file to a specific folder.

The flow backup looks almost identical. The only change is that the flow uses the Flows – Export Flow card to back up a particular flow.

The Google Drive folder looks like this after running the folder back up and flowing back up one time:

There are two short videos that show how these flows work:

📺 How to Create a Flow Backup and Save It to Google Drive

📺 How to Create a Folder Backup and Save It to Google Drive

Back up a flow to GitHub. Check out Versioning for Flows and Folders with GitHub template to learn more.