How real-time backup works — Help

"Real-time" is literal for Podio and near-real-time for everything else. The mechanism differs by platform, and it is worth understanding which is which.

Podio: webhooks

Podio pushes every change to us over webhooks the instant it happens. There is no schedule and nothing to configure — a change in Podio is in your lake milliseconds later.

Other platforms: polling & iPaaS

Platforms that do not push changes are synced via short-interval polling or iPaaS flows. The lag is small, but it is a poll rather than an instant push.

One-time initial sync first. When you connect a platform, we pull a full copy before real-time takes over. Large organizations spend longer on this catch-up; it only happens once per connection.