Use Cases
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GoWF is currently aimed at solving a relatively small number of use cases. Below are some examples of use cases for which GoWF, for the most part, should work well with.

VM Backup
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Backing up VM images/snapshots that match certain ``file_patterns`` to make sure only some types of files are uploaded to a Swift cluster.

Configuration
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  Todo

Surveillance Video
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Upload videos when a video recorder adds video segments into a watched folder. GoWF can also add metadata to objects, like ``recorder id``, ``building number`` or other useful tags.

  .. Note::

    GoWF doesn't have the capibility to upload video clips in realtime or streaming data to Swift cluster directly.
    The basic concept of GoWF is to monitor a given file suffix of a video clip as the camera finishes writing and then rename it and/or move it to another folder.

Configuration
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  Todo