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                "content": "## Backup to GitHub \nThis workflow will backup all instance credentials to GitHub.\n\nThe files are saved `ID.json` for the filename.\n\n### Setup\nOpen `Globals` node and update the values below \ud83d\udc47\n\n- **repo.owner:** your Github username\n- **repo.name:** the name of your repository\n- **repo.path:** the folder to use within the repository. If it doesn't exist it will be created.\n\n\nIf your username was `john-doe` and your repository was called `n8n-backups` and you wanted the credentials to go into a `credentials` folder you would set:\n\n- repo.owner - john-doe\n- repo.name - n8n-backups\n- repo.path - credentials\/\n\n\nThe workflow calls itself using a subworkflow, to help reduce memory usage."
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                "content": "## Main workflow loop"
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}
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