Salutations Gubbi, It would the same idea. Create a handler to execute your pipeline <https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/pipelines/executing-your-pipeline> then have your cron hit it.
On Friday, July 3, 2015 at 9:37:34 AM UTC-4, Gubbi wrote: > > Hi Ryan, > > Thanks for the pointers. But I was asking about scheduling a Dataflow > pipeline not Mapreduce pipeline. The above FAQ section is from Dataflow > documentation. Can you please help? > > Thanks. > > > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Ryan (Cloud Platform Support) < > rbruy...@google.com> wrote: > >> You would create a cron job >> <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/cron> to hit a >> URL in your app. That URL would then start the mapreduce >> <https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-mapreduce/wiki/3.1-Creating-and-Running-a-Job> >> >> job programmably. >> >> >> On Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 4:00:42 AM UTC-4, Gubbi wrote: >>> >>> Thanks Ryan. >>> >>> We were looking at the Mapreduce code that does the backup and also the >>> Cloud Dataflow code for DatastoreIO. We can do our own custom backups today >>> using a query via dataflow. Only restriction seems to be that the query >>> can't have inequality operators. >>> >>> However, we are not able to find a way to schedule Dataflow pipelines. >>> Questions to this effect on StackOverflow have gone unanswered. The >>> Dataflow FAQ however has this: >>> >>> Is there a built-in scheduling mechanism to execute pipelines at given >>> time or interval? >>> >>> You can automate pipeline execution through Google App Engine or custom >>> (CRON) job processes on GCE. Future releases of the SDK will support >>> command line options for finer grained control over job management. >>> >>> >>> But there is no documentation on how to automate execution using >>> Appengine or Cron. If you could please help me with this, I'll have a >>> solution. >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Vinuth. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Ryan (Cloud Platform Support) < >>> rbruy...@google.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I will process your PIT later today. >>>> >>>> Unfortunately there is no way to do incremental backups at this time. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 1:02:25 AM UTC-4, Gubbi wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I have created a new feature request here: >>>>> https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=12071 >>>>> >>>>> starred the old feature request as well. >>>>> >>>>> Are there any strategies I can use now for incremental backups? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:56 AM, Jason Collins < >>>>> jason.a.coll...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I have an old feature request here if you want to star it: >>>>>> >>>>>> https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7428 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tuesday, 16 June 2015 08:37:46 UTC-7, Ryan (Cloud Platform >>>>>> Support) wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Salutations Gubbi, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This Feature Request would best be posted in the Public Issue >>>>>>> Tracker >>>>>>> <https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/entry?template=Feature%20request>. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> When you fill out the report let me know on this thread and I will >>>>>>> process >>>>>>> it for you. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 10:53:47 AM UTC-4, Gubbi wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The official backup method only supports full backup as of now. I >>>>>>>> don't know when, if at all, it'll support incremental backup. It'll >>>>>>>> be >>>>>>>> wasteful to take full backups every time. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> What strategies are you using for taking incremental backups of >>>>>>>> your datastore? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>>> Vinuth. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Google App Engine" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/06f79b85-be73-4dc4-a774-07dfc6cf9cb0%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/06f79b85-be73-4dc4-a774-07dfc6cf9cb0%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google App Engine" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/143a8860-8148-48a0-941c-aeb27c66063b%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/143a8860-8148-48a0-941c-aeb27c66063b%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. 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