Schedule transfers

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.