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This article describes scheduling transfer jobs with Storage Transfer Service. It
includes information on scheduling recurring jobs and supported job
run frequencies, and examples for scheduling a job.
Overview
You can schedule your transfer jobs to run periodically, as frequently as
every hour. Storage Transfer Service runs an incremental transfer at
the frequency you specify, copying data to Cloud Storage, and recording the
results of the transfer in the Google Cloud Console without human intervention.
You can create or edit a transfer schedule when you
create or
edit a transfer job.
Storage Transfer Service jobs support the following interval periods:
Hours
Days
Weeks
You can elect to start the first transfer now, or at a future time.
Example schedules
The following table presents several scheduling scenarios, and how to configure
the scenario in the schedule editor:
Scenario
How to configure your schedule
Copy data every night at midnight, forever
Run every day
Starting on
Start date/time—tonight at midnight
End date—None
Copy data every hour, starting now
Run with custom frequency
Starting now
End date—None
Custom frequency:
Repeat every—1
Hours
Copy data every Tuesday at 3PM, starting in 2 weeks and stopping on April
3, 2030.
Run every week
Starting on
Start date/time—Tuesday 3:00PM, 2 weeks from now
End date—April 3, 2030
In addition to scheduling jobs at a specified time, you can
re-run a job using the same
configuration. Re-run jobs use the same configuration, but run only once.
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