Terraform-provider-aws: AWS DataSync Scheduling

[gazoakley]

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Description

AWS have announced support for scheduled tasks for AWS Datasync: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/aws-datasync-adds-the-ability-to-schedule-data-transfers/

You can now schedule AWS DataSync transfers between NFS servers, SMB servers, Amazon S3, and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). DataSync task scheduling enables you to periodically execute a transfer task to detect and copy changes from your source storage system to the destination.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• aws_datasync_task

Potential Terraform Configuration

resource "aws_datasync_task" "example" {
  destination_location_arn = "${aws_datasync_location_s3.destination.arn}"
  name                     = "example"
  source_location_arn      = "${aws_datasync_location_nfs.source.arn}"

  schedule {
    schedule_expression = "<cron expression>"
  }
}

References

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/datasync/latest/userguide/API_CreateTask.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/datasync/latest/userguide/API_UpdateTask.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/datasync/latest/userguide/API_TaskSchedule.html

[ewbankkit]

Requires AWS SDK v1.25.39:

• https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-aws/pull/10955

[Hitesh-Agrawal]

We need this part of the terraform resource to schedule our datasync task.

[gonzaloraisin]

Voted. Could you add filtering feature to the request? Thanks

[mehfuzh]

This is absolutely important to automate the data sync task,
+ 1

[bzcnsh]

shocked to find out that I cannot schedule/kick off the task with terraform, after spending hours setting up all the groundwork for EFS replication using terraform.
the ability to schedule task runs is absolutely needed.

[DrFaust92]

Ill take a crack at it.

[gazoakley]

@DrFaust92 Go for it - I don't have any plans to work on this right now 👍

[tmx-dxiao]

DataSync scheduling is a must have! The current Terraform datasync task does not support scheduling, does not support specify log level... Unbelievable!