Managing Worker Profiles

A profile is the machine type of a worker instance that Veeam Backup for Google Cloud deploys in a specific Google Cloud region to perform a backup or archive operation. Veeam Backup for Google Cloud deploys one worker instance per each Google Cloud resource (whether it is a VM instance, a Cloud SQL instance or a Cloud Spanner instance) added to a backup policy. The profile of each deployed worker instance is selected based on the regional quota.

There are 3 types of worker profiles in Veeam Backup for Google Cloud:

• Primary — a profile that Veeam Backup for Google Cloud uses for creating image-level backups if the regional disk quota has not been reached yet.
• Secondary — a profile that Veeam Backup for Google Cloud uses for creating image-level backups if you have run or about to run out of the regional disk quota.
• Archiving — a profile that Veeam Backup for Google Cloud uses for creating archived backups.

Out of the box, Veeam Backup for Google Cloud comes with the default set of worker profiles where the primary profile is e2-highcpu-8, the secondary profile is e2-highcpu-2, and the archiving profile is e2-standard-4. However, to boost operational performance and to guarantee that you do not breach Google Cloud quota limits, you can add custom sets of worker profiles to specify machine types of VM instances that will operate as worker instances in different regions.

In This Section

• Adding Worker Profiles
• Editing Worker Profiles
• Removing Worker Profiles