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Connector Improvement: Option to set sync frequency to more then 24 hours

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karan chaudhary User

We have a use case where we see a need to sync a database once a week and maybe in future only once a month. Is there a way to get this feature on dashboard soon? Or is there any alternative that can be used for doing this?

Along with this it would be nice to have a flexibility to set cron jobs on the data sync.

with best regards

Karan chaudhary 

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    Alexander User

    Thanks, Karan! This functionality is available through the REST API - check it out here. I'm curious to learn more about your use case. We typically recommend customers sync data frequently. We only charge for the changes so the effect on your bill is minimal and the benefit to data freshness and sync reliability is important. For that reason, we plan to continue making this functionality available through the REST API but not in the user interface, where we try to keep things simple and guide people to good choices for most people.

  • Sravani Jagarlamudi User

    Hi Alexander,

    If we go with API approach to run a sync job, will the standard sync disabled? 

    My requirement is to run 1st and 15th of every month. As Fivetran doesn't support cron expressions, I will be using external tools to call Fivetran API (https://api.fivetran.com/v1/connectors/{connector_id}/force).

    In this case, I want to disable standard sync so that it won't run daily once. Is it possible?

     

    Thanks

    Sravani

  • Alexa Maturana-Lowe User

    Yes Sravani Jagarlamudi - This section of the docs outlines how this will work. https://fivetran.com/docs/rest-api/connectors#usecasehowtotriggersyncsonlywhenyouneedthem

  • James Dryden User

    Whilst it's clear we can manually trigger syncs longer than 24h with a CRON job, it would be great to see longer sync built-in to Fivetran.

    I imagine common use cases would be:

    • 2 days
    • 3 days
    • Daily, weekly (skip weekends)
    • Weekly (e.g. once on Monday)