Google Cloud

Veeam Backup & Replication offers various data protection and disaster recovery features for Google Cloud environments: VM, Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner instances. Specifically, you can perform the following data protection and disaster recovery operations:

  • Create image-level backups and cloud-native snapshots of VM instances.
  • Create image-level backups and cloud-native snapshots of Cloud SQL instances.

Note that Veeam Backup & Replication allows you to protect MySQL and PostgreSQL instances. SQL Server instances are not supported.

  • [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.

Note

Veeam Plug-In for Google Cloud is available for Microsoft Windows-based backup servers.

For more information, see the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud User Guide.

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