Overview

Note

Starting from Veeam Backup for Google Cloud version 5.0, Google Cloud Plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication is part of the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud architecture. That is why the Google Cloud Plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide has been merged into the main product guide.

Veeam Backup for Google Cloud is a solution developed for protection and disaster recovery tasks for Google Cloud environments. With Veeam Backup for Google Cloud, you can perform the following operations:

Create image-level backups and cloud-native snapshots of VM instances.
Create image-level backups and cloud-native snapshots of Cloud SQL instances.
[Available only for backup appliances managed by Veeam Backup & Replication] Create image-level backups and cloud-native snapshots of Cloud Spanner instances.
Keep the backed-up data in cost-effective, long-term Google storage buckets.

Restore entire Cloud SQL instances and specific Cloud SQL databases.
Restore entire VM instances, individual persistent disks, and guest OS files and folders.
[Available only for backup appliances managed by Veeam Backup & Replication] Restore entire VM instances to Microsoft Azure, AWS and Nutanix AHV.
[Available only for backup appliances managed by Veeam Backup & Replication] Perform Instant Recovery of VM instances to VMware vSphere and Hyper-V environments, and to Nutanix AHV clusters.
Restore entire Cloud Spanner instances and specific Cloud Spanner databases.

Important

Starting from version 5.0, Veeam Backup for Google Cloud is part of the Veeam Backup & Replication solution, and some features are available only for backup appliances managed by Veeam Backup & Replication. For more information, see Integration with Veeam Backup & Replication.