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You have a Compute Engine instance hosting an application used between 9 AM and 6 PM on weekdays. You want to back up this instance daily for disaster recovery purposes. You want to keep the backups…

The correct answer is B. 1. In the Cloud Console, go to the Compute Engine Disks page and select your instance's disk. Creating scheduled snapshots for persistent disk This document describes how to create a snapshot schedule to regularly and automatically back up your zonal and regional persistent disks. Use snapshot schedules as a best practice to back up your Compute Engine workloads. After…

Submitted by jordan8· Mar 30, 2026Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution

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You have a Compute Engine instance hosting an application used between 9 AM and 6 PM on weekdays. You want to back up this instance daily for disaster recovery purposes. You want to keep the backups for 30 days. You want the Google-recommended solution with the least management overhead and the least number of services. What should you do?

Options

  • A
    1. Update your instances' metadata to add the following value: snapshot-schedule: 0 1 * * *
  • B
    1. In the Cloud Console, go to the Compute Engine Disks page and select your instance's disk.
  • C
    1. Create a Cloud Function that creates a snapshot of your instance's disk.
  • D
    1. Create a bash script in the instance that copies the content of the disk to Cloud Storage.

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Explanation

Creating scheduled snapshots for persistent disk This document describes how to create a snapshot schedule to regularly and automatically back up your zonal and regional persistent disks. Use snapshot schedules as a best practice to back up your Compute Engine workloads. After creating a snapshot schedule, you can apply it to one or more persistent disks. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/scheduled-snapshots

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#Compute Engine snapshots#snapshot schedule#disaster recovery#backup retention

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