Filestore lets you back up your instances on demand or automatically using a Backup and DR Service.
Backup options
Filestore offers the following backup options:
Standard backups: Filestore creates, manages, and stores standard backups in the same project as your Filestore instances. This is the existing Filestore backup offering that lets you create on-demand backups. For general information about how backups work, see backups overview.
Enhanced backups: Backup and DR Service stores and manages backups. This is a centralized, managed backup service that offers advanced features for data protection and management.
The following table shows the differences between standard and enhanced backups:
| Feature | On-demand backups | Enhanced backups |
|---|---|---|
| Backup management | Filestore | Backup and DR Service |
| Tier availability | Basic , Zonal, Regional, Enterprise | Zonal, Regional, Enterprise |
| Backup secured against unauthorized deletion or changes | - | Immutable and indelible backups through backup vault |
| Automated backup frequency | - | Hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly |
| On-demand backup retention | Retained indefinitely until manually deleted | Retained until expired (by a backup rule) or manually deleted |
| Backups protected against source project deletion | - | ✔ |
| Centralized backup management across resources and projects | - | ✔ |
| Long-term (>1 year) backup retention | - | ✔ |
| Backups protected against source instance deletion | ✔ | ✔ |
| Customer-managed encryption (CMEK) | ✔ | Planned |
| Multi-regional backups | ✔ | Planned |
| Cross-region backups | - | Planned |
What's next
- Learn how to back up data with standard on-demand backups.
- Learn how to back up data with enhanced on-demand backups.
- Learn how to create backup vaults and plans with Backup and DR Service.