--- title: Stop Running Data Syncs Manually: Automate Incremental... description: A step-by-step guide to automating daily incremental data synchronization using Apache SeaTunnel as the data integration engine and Apache DolphinScheduler as... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/stop-running-data-syncs-manually-automate-incremental-pipelines-with-apache-seatunnel-dolphinsche-ogrfaqwdv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Stop Running Data Syncs Manually: Automate Incremental Pipelines with Apache SeaTunnel & DolphinScheduler | daily.dev og:description: A step-by-step guide to automating daily incremental data synchronization using Apache SeaTunnel as the data integration engine and Apache DolphinScheduler as... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/stop-running-data-syncs-manually-automate-incremental-pipelines-with-apache-seatunnel-dolphinsche-ogrfaqwdv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/oGRfaqWdV.png og:image:alt: Stop Running Data Syncs Manually: Automate Incremental Pipelines with Apache SeaTunnel & DolphinScheduler og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Stop Running Data Syncs Manually: Automate Incremental Pipelines with Apache SeaTunnel & DolphinScheduler **[Towards Dev](https://daily.dev/sources/towardsdev)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A step-by-step guide to automating daily incremental data synchronization using Apache SeaTunnel as the data integration engine and Apache DolphinScheduler as the workflow orchestrator. The tutorial covers installing the SeaTunnel plugin in DolphinScheduler, configuring environment variables, creating a scheduled workflow with a dynamic date parameter that filters yesterday's records from MySQL, and writing the SeaTunnel JDBC source/sink configuration. The result is a fully automated pipeline with built-in scheduling, execution history, retry mechanisms, and centralized monitoring — eliminating manual cron-based sync scripts. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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