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title: "Sync preferences and transfer scheduling"
slug: "sync-preferences-and-transfer-scheduling"
updated: 2025-06-04T10:53:49Z
published: 2025-06-04T10:53:49Z
canonical: "bobsled.com/sync-preferences-and-transfer-scheduling"
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# Sync preferences and transfer scheduling

When creating a [data transfer](/v2/docs/transferring-data), Bobsled allows you to determine how often the system checks for changes in your source data to update the destination. This includes options on when the sync starts and if it’s a transfer that is only supposed to occur once.

![ Setting up sync preferences in the Bobsled application.](https://cdn.document360.io/87a415ff-4d6a-4c0c-adbb-26c563a2d9a8/Images/Documentation/transfersync.png)

### Scheduling transfers

Bobsled enables scheduling your transfer to run at a cadence of your choice. Bobsled supports scheduling transfers to run at the following intervals:

- **Transfer once** (the transfer will run once and will not check for updates again)
- **5 minutes**
- **30 minutes**
- **1 hour**
- **6 hours**
- **12 hours**
- **1 day**
- **1 week**
- **2 weeks**
- **1 month**

![Bobsled’s Sync preferences in the application](https://cdn.document360.io/87a415ff-4d6a-4c0c-adbb-26c563a2d9a8/Images/Documentation/sync-preferences-now.png)

Transfers can also be set to start immediately or at a date and time in the future. This enables you to set up a transfer and then make sure it doesn't start until a contracted date or when the data will be ready.

![Bobsled’s Sync preferences for scheduled Transfers in the application](https://cdn.document360.io/87a415ff-4d6a-4c0c-adbb-26c563a2d9a8/Images/Documentation/sync-preferences-later.png)