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Nightly backup: Sentra 311 requests to S3
Every night, copies all Sentra 311 requests to a dated JSON file in the city's own S3 bucket. The backup lives in the city's storage; SentraBridge keeps nothing.
This flow
4 steps
StartsOn a schedule
SystemsSentra 311, Amazon S3 / S3-compatible
Branches0
Stored recordsNone: pass-through
§ The flow
The whole flow, as it appears on the canvas.
Scroll sideways on small screens. Colors show the kind of step: start, read, change, decide, write.
§ Step by step
What each step does.
- 01 · Start · On a schedule
Nightly at 1:30 am
- Cron
30 1 * * *(workspace time zone)
Then: All 311 requests
- Cron
- 02 · Read · Get records · Sentra 311
All 311 requests
- Reads Service requests from Sentra 311
- At most 100,000 records per run
Then: Dated JSON file
- 03 · Files · Write file · Amazon S3 / S3-compatible
Dated JSON file
- Writes JSON file
requests-{{ $today }}.jsontosentra311/{{ $today }} - One file with every record
Then: Tell IT
- Writes JSON file
- 04 · Act · Send email
Tell IT
- Emails
[email protected]: “311 backup done: {{count}} requests” - One summary email
- Emails
§ Systems
Connectors used
Swap any of them for another system with the same kind of data.
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