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The way to get the most value out of the data pipeline is to schedule regular exports. The data pipeline performs a full export every time, so if you have a large site, you may want to only export once a week.
To set the export schedule:
- From the Data pipeline screen, select Schedule settings.
- Select the Schedule regular exports checkbox.
- Select the date to include data from. Data from before this date won’t be included. This is usually set to 12 months or less.
- Choose how often to repeat the export.
- Select a time to start the export. You may want to schedule the export to happen outside working hours.
- Select the Schema version to use (if more than one schema is available).
- Save your schedule.
Timezones and recurring exports
We use your server timezone to schedule exports (or system timezone if you’ve overridden the server time in the application). The export schedule isn’t updated if you change your timezone. If you do need to change the timezone, you’ll need to edit the schedule and re-enter the export time.
You can schedule exports to happen as often as you need. If you choose to export on multiple days, the first export will occur on the nearest day after you save the schedule. Using the example in the screenshot above, if you set up your schedule on Thursday, the first export would occur on Saturday, and the second export on Monday. We don’t wait for the start of the week.
Export schema
The export schema defines the structure of the export. We version the schema so that you know your export will have the same structure as previous exports. This helps you avoid problems if you’ve built dashboards or reports based on this data.
We only introduce new schema versions for breaking changes, such as removing a field, or if the way the data is structured changes. New fields are simply added to the latest schema version.
Older schema versions will be marked as ‘deprecated’, and may be removed in future versions. You can still export using these versions, just be aware we won’t update them with any new fields.