

It is also possible to schedule the backups using Cloud Scheduler and Cloud Functions and regularly back up instances to a remote region. The service can be used as well to migrate a Filestore instance to a different region or to create multiple copies of a file system across a collection of regions. As the NFS protocol makes Google Cloud Filestore compatible with most legacy enterprise applications, Filestore backups can help enterprises migrate business continuity, disaster recovery and backup strategy for file systems to Google Cloud.Īmong the most common use cases for the new product, Google Cloud suggests backing up data for disaster recovery, backing up data to protect against accidental changes and creating clones for development and testing environments. The new service for Filestore, the managed network attached storage (NAS) for Compute Engine and GKE instances, can be used to restore a file system back to a previous state or to create a new Filestore instance whose data is identical to the original at the point in time the backup was taken.

Google Cloud has recently introduced a preview in all regions of Filestore Backups, a new product to simplify the migration of file-based applications to the cloud.
