# Restore workflows and credentials from remote FTP backup storage: n8n workflow

> Started by an event in a connected app, and works across Email and FTP. 20 steps, 2 branches: a working afternoon to understand properly.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/workflow/restore-workflows-and-credentials-from-remote-ftp-backup-sto (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

[Automation library](https://millionrounds.com/workflows) · [Documents and files](https://millionrounds.com/workflows?category=Documents+and+files#library)

# Restore workflows and credentials from remote FTP backup storage

Started by an event in a connected app, and works across Email and FTP. 20 steps, 2 branches: a working afternoon to understand properly.

Medium

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**20 steps** Medium: a working afternoon

**2** Branches: places the flow splits

**0** Loops or waits

**2** Services it connects to

## The flow

Starts it 1 Logic 6 Service 13

The steps in the order they run, from what starts it.

- 1 **Start Restore** Manual trigger *Starts it*
- 2 **Init** Code *Logic*
- 3 **List Credentials Folders** Ftp *Service*
- 4 **Find Last Backup** Code *Logic*
- 5 **Create Temp Folder** Execute Command *Service*
- 6 **ERROR: Find Most Recent Credentials Folder** Stop And Error *Logic*
- 7 **Restore Credentials?** If *Logic*
- 8 **Restore Workflows?** If *Logic*
- 9 **List Credentials Files** Ftp *Service*
- 10 **List Most Recent Workflows Folder** Ftp *Service*
- 11 **Download Credential Files** Ftp *Service*
- 12 **Download Workflow Files** Ftp *Service*
- 13 **Write Credential Files To Disk** Read Write File *Service*
- 14 **Filter out Credentials sub-folder** Filter *Logic*
- 15 **Restore Credentials** Execute Command *Service*
- 16 **Write Workflow Files To Disk** Read Write File *Service*
- 17 **SUCCESS email Credentials** Email Send *Service*
- 18 **Exclude Current Workflow From Selection** Execute Command *Service*
- 19 **Restore Workflows** Execute Command *Service*
- 20 **SUCCESS email Workflows** Email Send *Service*

## How it's built

- **Starts on:** An event in a connected app
- **Steps:** 20, with 2 branches
- **Size:** Medium: a working afternoon
- **Connects to:** Email, FTP
- **Model:** None. This is plumbing, not judgement

## Questions

What does it need to run?

An n8n account, plus your own Email and FTP accounts. You connect your own accounts after importing it; none are included.

What starts it?

It starts on an event in a connected app.

Does it use AI?

No. Every step is fixed logic or a call to a service, so it does the same thing every time.

How long does it take to set up?

Plan an afternoon. 20 steps is enough that you should read each one before running it.

How do I import it?

Copy the workflow, open a new workflow in n8n and paste. The steps appear on the canvas, ready for your own accounts.

**Before you run it**

Nothing here has been tested by us. It is somebody's working automation, read and described from its own steps. Treat the connections it wants as a list of accounts it will touch, and read the 20 steps before you point it at anything that matters.

## Run it in n8n

- **Create your n8n account** Free to start. n8n is where the workflow runs. [Create an n8n account ↗](https://millionrounds.com/n8n)
- **Download the workflow** Free with a Millionrounds account. [Download free](https://millionrounds.com/login?next=%2Fapp%2Fworkflow%2Frestore-workflows-and-credentials-from-remote-ftp-backup-sto)
- **Paste it into n8n** Open a new workflow in n8n and paste. Then connect your own accounts.

Stored with the author's traces removed: canvas notes, instance identifiers, saved credential names and any live document they had left behind.

## Connects to

Each opens the other workflows that use it.

[Email](https://millionrounds.com/workflows?service=Email#library)[FTP](https://millionrounds.com/workflows?service=FTP#library)

## Workflows like it

Also documents and files, with the same services where possible, closest in size first.

- [**Auto-file emailed documents to Clio matters in Google Drive** 21 steps · Email, Google Drive](https://millionrounds.com/workflow/auto-file-emailed-documents-to-clio-matters-in-google-drive)
- [**LinkedIn profile finder with Bright Data and OpenAI** 19 steps · calls a model · Email](https://millionrounds.com/workflow/linkedin-profile-finder-with-bright-data-and-openai)
- [**Audit contract governance risk with OpenAI and Slack** 24 steps · calls a model · Email, Slack](https://millionrounds.com/workflow/audit-contract-governance-risk-with-openai-and-slack)
- [**Automate manufacturing QC documentation & compliance** 14 steps · Email, Google Drive](https://millionrounds.com/workflow/automate-manufacturing-qc-documentation-and-compliance)
- [**Track tenant document compliance with Drive and Sheets** 14 steps · calls a model · Email, Google Drive](https://millionrounds.com/workflow/track-tenant-document-compliance-with-drive-and-sheets)
- [**Advanced document approval for Microsoft 365 with MySQL** 27 steps · Email, MySQL](https://millionrounds.com/workflow/advanced-document-approval-for-microsoft-365-with-mysql)