diff --git a/.github/workflows/gitlab-mirror.yml b/.github/workflows/gitlab-mirror.yml
index ab774f5bae86e5adce0c442aff1ab3da082074ac..80dd8b9605c7bcf38811e02d79ae92930c0fa32d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/gitlab-mirror.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/gitlab-mirror.yml
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 name: gitlab-mirror
 
 on:
+  schedule:
+    # Runs every hour, on the hour
+    - cron:  '0 * * * *'
+
   # To be able to manually trigger the job from GitHub UI
   workflow_dispatch:
 
-  # Allows external webhook trigger so GitLab can ping GitHub when anything is
-  # pushed.
-  repository_dispatch:
-
 permissions:
   # Necessary to be able to push to the repo
   contents: write