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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 f
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Submitted by jordan8· Mar 30, 2026Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution
Question
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
- Update your instances' metadata to add the following value: snapshot-schedule: 0 1 * * *
- B
- In the Cloud Console, go to the Compute Engine Disks page and select your instance's disk.
- C
- Create a Cloud Function that creates a snapshot of your instance's disk.
- D
- Create a bash script in the instance that copies the content of the disk to Cloud Storage.
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Topics
#Compute Engine snapshots#snapshot schedule#disaster recovery#backup retention