Google Vault Backup
Data backup is more crucial than ever. Due to the rise in ransomware attacks, more customers are upgrading their protection to protect their data. Thus, security and usability are prioritized. Regarding security, the frequency of ransomware and other cyberattacks puts a company’s finances and reputation at serious danger. Simultaneously, there is a strong need to decrease operational burden and boost agility by streamlining backup management.
Google is introducing three significant updates to the Google Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery (DR) service, all of which are now in preview, to better meet your changing needs:
- The new backup vault storage feature protects your backups from manipulation and unwanted deletion by providing immutable (preventing modification) and indelible (preventing deletion) backups.
- A completely managed end-to-end solution for centralized backup management that facilitates direct integration into resource management flows and makes data protection simple.
- Integration with the Compute Engine virtual machine formation process, enabling application owners to implement backup policies at the time of VM creation.
Protect your backups from unapproved deletion and alteration
Backups are frequently the last line of defense for data recovery in situations where production data is compromised or unreliable, as occurs after a major user error or cyberattack. It’s imperative to secure your backups from later alteration and deletion in addition to backing up your important workloads. Backup vault enables you to confidently achieve the protection your organization needs by offering secure storage for backups made by the Backup and DR service.
How to Backup Vault
Air-gapped backup isolation makes sense
Data from your backup vault is conceptually air-gapped from your self-managed Google Cloud project and kept in a Google-managed project. Direct assaults against the underlying backup vault resources are prevented since they are not visible to or accessible by users within your business. The only way to access backup vault data is via the APIs and user interface of Google Cloud Backup and DR services.
Control and adherence: mandatory storage
You can stipulate while building a backup vault that vaulted backups have to be kept under strict security against deletion and modification until the administrator-specified minimum enforced retention period has passed. You can meet backup immutability and indelibility goals with this layered protection. Security initiatives and regulatory compliance requirements are common drivers of these goals.
Dependable and adaptable recuperation
Fully self-contained, vaulted backups allow for recovery even in the event that the original resource is unavailable. Furthermore, backup vaults can be established in a project that is distinct from the source project to guarantee that backups are still available in the event that the source project or resource is destroyed. You may therefore set up your backup policy to offer robust resistance against the deletion of the source project. In the event of a cyberattack, this facilitates the prompt recovery of production applications to projects that already exist or are freshly established. Recovery into projects set up as isolated recovery environments (IREs) for pre-recovery testing and forensics is also supported.
In the upcoming months, the backup vault feature will become broadly accessible after being made available in preview form today. Oracle and SQL Server databases, as well as Compute Engine and VMware Engine virtual machines, are all protected.
Utilize centralized, fully managed backup administration
Consumers frequently request an infrastructure-free, self-serving, and basic backup solution made for cloud applications. Customers want a more flexible strategy that gives app developers the ability to backup their virtual machines (VMs) while maintaining governance and monitoring by the central backup team. This is to ensure that critical operational components do not impede the agility that businesses need.
With a fully managed solution that simplifies data protection and provides an integrated, developer-centric, self-service approach for app developers, Google cloud new centralized backup management experience offers simplicity.
Store your vital Compute Engine virtual machine data in backup vaults
The new fully managed experience, which offers first support for managing Compute Engine VM protection, simplifies backup setup into three simple steps: 1) building a backup vault (storage), 2) defining your backup plan (schedule), and 3) initiating your VMs’ protection. Because of this approach’s ease of use, complicated setups are not necessary, allowing you to concentrate on your main business activities rather than managing backups.
Providing direct connection to empower application owners
Thanks to an integrated experience during VM formation, platform administrators now have the ability to backup Compute Engine virtual machines (VMs). This feature streamlines workflows and lessens the administrative load on IT and central backup teams by enabling teams to take charge of their own backup strategy right from the VM creation process. It is possible to guarantee that your data protection standards are followed consistently right from the start by including backup tasks in the VM provisioning process. Admins have freedom and control because of their integration with Google Cloud Identity and Access Management.
Centralized oversight, reporting, and monitoring
By providing centralized management over backup policies and enabling application owners to handle their own backup operations, the backup service improves governance as well as supervision. This dual-layer strategy strikes the ideal mix between operational flexibility and centralized control, ensuring consistency and compliance throughout the business.
The system offers extensive monitoring and reporting features to further fortify data protection:
Backup and restore jobs that are scheduled
Monitor the progress of these jobs to make sure they are proceeding according to plan. Track advancement, failure, and success of jobs with a single dashboard.
Customizable reports
Produce thorough reports on protected resources, compliance, storage utilization, failed and skipped jobs, and more. Customize these reports to your own requirements to acquire insightful knowledge about your backup environment.
Notifications and alerts
Configure alerts and notifications to be informed when important backup events occur. You’ll get timely notifications to take the necessary action, whether it’s about a failed job or other significant updates.
Automation simplicity: Integrate at-scale protection with your current systems
Effective cloud resource management requires automation, and new product works with the VM management tools you already have. Easy integration into your automation workflows is made possible by the Backup vault, regardless of whether you’re using Terraform, APIs, or the gcloud CLI. You will be able to use the UI and the gcloud CLI to secure Compute Engine virtual machines during the preview. You can use APIs and Terraform to integrate backup operations as code on top of your current infrastructure and integrate them into your larger VM management strategy once the offering is made broadly available. With this feature, you can be sure that your backup procedures are optimized for your current infrastructure and that they are also effective.
