How to create scheduled sync task?

Overview

In this article, we'll help you to get rid of frequent and manual file sync between Cloud Drives, CBackup has scheduling capabilities built-in to let you configure a scheduled file sync.

CBackup offers four schedule modes: One time only, Daily, Weekly, Monthly. With these modes, you can select a schedule mode according to your needs. After scheduling, data will be synced between the Cloud Drives at a regular interval or simply for a special timing automatically. For instance, you can schedule sync from OneDrive to Dropbox in One time only, Daily/Weekly/Monthly mode. Then, CBackup will automatically sync your data between OneDrive and Dropbox at the regular interval you chose.

Create a scheduled sync task

Please follow the steps below to create a scheduled Sync task:

1. Opening the Schedule settings.

• For the new task, please click the Settings button when you create a new task to open the schedule settings. And you can click here to know how to create a sync task.

• For the created task, please move the cursor on the task then click on the three-dot button then select Settings to open the schedule settings.

2. Select the Scheduler tab in the Sync Settings window.

3. Select a sync schedule depending on needs, and you can see there are 4 Scheduled Modes.

• One time only mode: set a time to run the sync only once.

• Daily mode: set a time to run the sync once a day or run a sync in Intervals. And you could perform hourly backup too.

• Weekly mode: set a specific day of the week to run the sync.

• Monthly mode: set a specific day of the month to run the sync.

4. Click OK after the configuration. This modification will be performed at the next sync.