GCP snapshots | How to setup and use disk snapshots in Google Compute Engine | GCP training

GCP | How to setup and use persistent disk #snapshots in Google Compute Engine | GCP training GCP snapshots | How to setup and use disk snapshots in Google Compute Engine | GCP training In #GCP it is important always to have a way to recover your workloads and data in case some issue happens. This is done using a #backup solution or a #DR solution, where you can configure a policy such as retention period, or backup frequency, or recovery time objective (RTO) or RPO (recovery point objective). While the use of a dedicated backup or DR solution is very useful and helpful, you still have a lot of tools in #Google Cloud Platform and in #Compute_Engine (#GCE). One of these tools is Persistent Disks #Snapshots. Snapshots in GCP is one of the most essential tools that any GCP #admin or engineer would need to use all the time for any scenario. This is your most basic, easiest, and cheapest backup solution for GCP workloads and VMs in Compute Engine. You have two options to configure snapshots for your VMs in GCP. You can either do it manually by creating a snapshot for a disk in Compute Engine, or you can create a snapshot schedule, then assign disks to this schedule. Using a snapshot schedule will allow you to #automate the snapshots creation, ensuring you have a guaranteed recovery point in case something goes wrong. You will have the ability and the options to configure the frequency, and the retention of the snapshots schedule. For me personally, I would always create a ‘default’ snapshots schedule for any customer or organization or VM I work with. This makes sure that I have a recovery point in case something goes wrong during whatever activity or deployment I’m doing. I would configure a 14 days retention snapshots schedule with 1 snapshot everyday out of production hours. In your case you may want to change the frequency, or reduce the retention, or even make it an hourly snapshot schedule that only retains the snapshots for 1 or 2 days, which can serve as a quick and short recovery point for you. GCP is very flexible and you can do a lot of setups and configurations in GCP! In this video I show you how you can create and setup snapshots and snapshot schedule in #Google Cloud Platform and Compute Engine. ------------------------------------------------ Video timeline/chapters 0:00 - Introduction 0:35 - What are the benefits of using snapshots in GCP? 1:08 - Persistent disk snapshots use cases in GCP 3:16 - How persistent disk snapshots behave and appear in GCP 3:57 - Regional and multi-regional snapshots in GCP and DR and availability planning 6:12 - How to create a snapshot for a VM in GCP Compute Engine (GCE) 8:48 - How to create a snapshot schedule for VMs in GCP in Compute Engine 11:58 - How to assign a disk to a snapshot schedule in GCP in Compute Engine 12:51 - Closing ------------------------------------------------ Don’t forget to like the video and subscribe! ------------------------------------------------ Links mentioned in the video: Working with persistent disk snapshots: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs... Disaster recovery planning guide: https://cloud.google.com/architecture... Disaster recovery building blocks: https://cloud.google.com/architecture... My website/blog: https://www.salehram.com My Google Workspace Admin Course: https://www.salehram.com/gws-admin-tr... My Twitter:   / salehram87   ------------------------------------------------ Interesting related channels: Google Workspace -    / @googleworkspace   Google Cloud Tech -    / @googlecloudtech   Google Cloud -    / @googlecloud   Learn GCP with Mahesh -    / @learngooglecloudwithmahesh