Periodic Upload

Upload on a timer

In certain cases, your data might change periodically and you might want to update your datastore on a predictable schedule (e.g. every hour or every day), You can configure crontab to do this automatically for you.

Here's an example program that uploads a new version of a datastore every hour:

#write out current crontab
crontab -l > mycron

#run datastore upload every hour every day
echo "0 * * * * grid datastore create data/path --name dataset" >> mycron    

#install new cron file
crontab mycron
rm mycron