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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT · Question #19
Your company runs several databases on a single MySQL instance. They need to take backups of a specific database at regular intervals. The backup activity needs to complete as quickly as possible…
The correct answer is B. Mount a Local SSD volume as the backup location. After the backup is complete, use gsutil to. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/best-practices#backing_up When taking regular database backups, be careful not to consume too many persistent disk IOPS. Use the local SSD to stage your backups and then push them to a Cloud Storage bucket.
Submitted by femi9· Mar 30, 2026Managing and provisioning cloud solution infrastructure
Question
Your company runs several databases on a single MySQL instance. They need to take backups of a specific database at regular intervals. The backup activity needs to complete as quickly as possible and cannot be allowed to impact disk performance. How should you configure the storage?
Options
- AConfigure a cron job to use the gcloud tool to take regular backups using persistent disk
- BMount a Local SSD volume as the backup location. After the backup is complete, use gsutil to
- CUse gcsfuse to mount a Google Cloud Storage bucket as a volume directly on the instance and
- DMount additional persistent disk volumes onto each virtual machine (VM) instance in a RAID10
How the community answered
(36 responses)- A3% (1)
- B75% (27)
- C14% (5)
- D8% (3)
Explanation
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/best-practices#backing_up When taking regular database backups, be careful not to consume too many persistent disk IOPS. Use the local SSD to stage your backups and then push them to a Cloud Storage bucket.
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#Local SSD#database backup#MySQL#storage performance
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