Aucta internal operations tool

Aucta Store A Backup

An internal tool that makes a daily encrypted backup of one Aucta recovery database and stores it in a dedicated folder in the operator's own Google Drive.

This is not a customer product. It has no sign-up and no user accounts, and only Aucta's operator connects it to a Google account. It is not Aucta's general website, and this page and its privacy notice do not describe Aucta's customer services.

What it does

"Store A" is a separate Aucta database that keeps a record of deletions and similar actions, so they can be applied again if the main database ever has to be restored from an older copy. Once a day an automated job:

  1. reads Store A through a read-only login;
  2. encrypts the export;
  3. checks that the export can be decrypted and restored into a temporary database, then removes that database;
  4. uploads the encrypted file and a small summary file to a dedicated Google Drive folder;
  5. removes its own older backup sets under the retention rules in the privacy notice.

Why it uses Google Drive

Keeping a copy with a different provider means the backup survives a failure at the place Store A is hosted. The tool asks Google for one permission only, drive.file, which lets it use files and folders it created itself. It cannot see or change anything else in the operator's Drive.

Use

This tool is operated by Aucta for its own recovery purposes. It is not offered to anyone else, and there is nothing here to sign up for or install.

More information

Privacy notice for Aucta Store A Backup

Questions: auctabot@gmail.com