About Backup and DR for the management console

Backup and DR for the management console is an appliance-based backup and disaster recovery solution that lets you capture, store, replicate, and recover virtual machines (VMs), file systems, and self-managed databases in Google Cloud and hybrid environments. You manage data protection across these workloads through a dedicated, web-based appliance management console and customer-deployed backup/recovery appliances.

While you can protect many resources directly through the Google Cloud console, gcloud CLI, backupdr API, and Terraform into Google-managed backup vaults, the appliance-based solution uses the dedicated appliance management console.

For more information, see Backup and DR for the management console overview.

When to use the management console

Use the appliance management console when your use case involves any of the following tasks:

  • Deploying or managing backup/recovery appliances and storage pools.

  • Protecting and recovering self-managed databases, Google Cloud VMware Engine and VMware vSphere VMs, or Linux and Windows file systems.

  • Managing existing backups of Compute Engine instances configured in the management console.

  • Configuring appliance-based backup templates, policies, and resource profiles.

  • Using copy data management capabilities such as mounts, LiveClones, or automated workflows.

What Backup and DR for the management console provides

You can use Backup and DR in the management console to do the following:

  • Deploy and manage backup/recovery appliances in your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network and configure cloud infrastructure.

  • Install the Backup and DR agent on Linux and Windows hosts to discover and protect databases and file systems.

  • Define incremental-forever backup schedules, retention policies, and storage targets.

  • Recover workloads to production or instantly mount backup images.

  • Track backup jobs, events, compliance, and storage utilization.

Pricing

For pricing information, see Backup and DR pricing.

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