Before you start creating backups

Complete the following steps before creating, scheduling, or restoring backups.

Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.

In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

Roles required to select or create a project

• Select a project: Selecting a project doesn't require a specific IAM role—you can select any project that you've been granted a role on.
• Create a project: To create a project, you need the Project Creator role (roles/resourcemanager.projectCreator), which contains the resourcemanager.projects.create permission. Learn how to grant roles.

Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

Go to project selector

If you're using an existing project for this guide, verify that you have the permissions required to complete this guide. If you created a new project, then you already have the required permissions.

Verify that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

Enable the Filestore, Backup and DR Service APIs.

Roles required to enable APIs

To enable APIs, you need the Service Usage Admin IAM role (roles/serviceusage.serviceUsageAdmin), which contains the serviceusage.services.enable permission. Learn how to grant roles.

Enable the APIs

In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

Roles required to select or create a project

• Select a project: Selecting a project doesn't require a specific IAM role—you can select any project that you've been granted a role on.
• Create a project: To create a project, you need the Project Creator role (roles/resourcemanager.projectCreator), which contains the resourcemanager.projects.create permission. Learn how to grant roles.

Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

Go to project selector

If you're using an existing project for this guide, verify that you have the permissions required to complete this guide. If you created a new project, then you already have the required permissions.

Verify that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

Enable the Filestore, Backup and DR Service APIs.

Roles required to enable APIs

To enable APIs, you need the Service Usage Admin IAM role (roles/serviceusage.serviceUsageAdmin), which contains the serviceusage.services.enable permission. Learn how to grant roles.

Enable the APIs

Required roles

To get the permissions that you need to create an enhanced backup, ask your administrator to grant you the following IAM roles on your project:

• Create and manage backups with Backup and DR Service: Backup and DR Backup User (roles/backupdr.backupUser)
• Create and manage Filestore instances: Cloud Filestore Editor (roles/file.editor)
• Use Cloud Key Management Service resources for encrypt and decrypt operations only: Cloud Key Management Service CryptoKey Encrypter/Decrypter (roles/cloudkms.cryptoKeyEncrypterDecrypter)

For more information about granting roles, see Manage access to projects, folders, and organizations.

These predefined roles contain the permissions required to create an enhanced backup. To see the exact permissions that are required, expand the Required permissions section:

Required permissions

The following permissions are required to create an enhanced backup:

• backupdr.backupPlans.list
• backupdr.backupPlanAssociations.createForFilestoreInstance
• backupdr.backupPlanAssociations.list
• backupdr.backupPlanAssociations.get
• backupdr.backupPlanAssociations.triggerBackupForFilestoreInstance
• backupdr.backupPlanAssociations.deleteForFilestoreInstance
• backupdr.backupPlans.useForFilestoreInstance
• backupdr.locations.list
• backupdr.operations.get
• cloudasset.assets.searchAllResources

You might also be able to get these permissions with custom roles or other predefined roles.

What's next

• Learn more about backups.
• Learn how to create standard backups.
• Learn how to create and schedule enhanced backups.
• Learn how to restore standard and enhanced backups.