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Scheduled upload

TOS Browser allows you to schedule uploads, making it easy to back up your local files and folders at specific times. This topic explains how to create policies for scheduled uploads and how to view the associated tasks.

Notes

This feature is currently in closed beta. Please contact your account manager for access.

How it works

TOS Browser automatically runs your scheduled upload policies once a day, on the days you select, continuing until the policy expires. Only files that meet the conditions will be uploaded during the policy validity period. If the conditions are not met, the files will not be uploaded. The types of local files that TOS Browser uploads are as follows:

Files that exist locally but not in the destination bucket.

Files with the same name locally and in the destination bucket but different file sizes.

Files with the same name locally and in the destination bucket, where the object in the bucket was modified earlier than the local file.

Creating a scheduled upload policy

On the Buckets page, click the alarm clock icon in the upper-right corner.

In the Cronjob management panel, under the Upload policy tab, click Create policy.

In the Create policy dialog, set the following parameters.

Parameter	Description
Name of policy	Enter a name for your scheduled upload policy.
Whether to enable	Select whether to enable the policy.
Effective date	Specify the time period during which the policy will be effective.
Start time	Set the time each day at which the policy will begin to execute.
End time	Set the time each day at which the policy will end execution.
Repeat cycle	Select the days on which the scheduled upload will recur. You can select one or more days from Monday to Sunday.
Policy preview	Displays the execution time and frequency of the policy.
Now run	Select whether to run the policy immediately after its creation. If this option is not selected, the policy will not execute until after the start time.

Click Next steps to specify which files to upload and where to store them.

Parameter	Description
Target bucket	Select the bucket to which the files will be uploaded.
Target path	Specify where uploaded files will be stored in the bucket. By default, files are stored in the Backup directory. Please note that: Paths can contain Chinese characters, letters, numbers, and common symbols. You can use forward slashes (/) to quickly create subfolders. However, the folder name cannot start with a forward slash (/) or backslash (\) and cannot contain consecutive forward slashes (/). .. cannot be used as a folder name.
Select file	Select the file(s) or folder(s) you want to upload.

Once you have finished configuring, click Create.

After creating a scheduled upload policy, you can view information such as the next upload time, the last trigger time, and the destination bucket on the Upload policy tab in the Cronjob management panel.

tip

TOS Browser executes a scheduled upload policy when its start time is reached. You can also manually trigger the policy by clicking Manual upload in the Actions column.

Viewing scheduled upload tasks

Viewing tasks

Viewing object details within a task

On the Buckets page, click the alarm clock icon in the upper-right corner.

In the Cronjob management panel, click the Timed upload task tab to view all tasks triggered by scheduled upload policies.

tip

Scheduled upload tasks are named in the following format: Policy name-Trigger method-Trigger time.

To export all object information for a task, click Export in the Actions column on the Timed upload task tab.

Last updated: 2026.03.18 18:48:58