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PROFESSIONAL-DATA-ENGINEER · Question #275

You have 15 TB of data in your on-premises data center that you want to transfer to Google Cloud. Your data changes weekly and is stored in a POSIX-compliant source. The network operations team has…

The correct answer is C. Install Storage Transfer Service for on-premises data in your data center, and then configure a weekly transfer job. Explanation/Reference: Storage Transfer Service agents are applications running inside a Docker container, that coordinate with Storage Transfer Service to read data from POSIX file system sources, and/or write data to POSIX file system sinks…

Submitted by javi_es· Mar 30, 2026Building and operationalizing data processing systems

Question

You have 15 TB of data in your on-premises data center that you want to transfer to Google Cloud. Your data changes weekly and is stored in a POSIX-compliant source. The network operations team has granted you 500 Mbps bandwidth to the public internet. You want to follow Google recommended practices to reliably transfer your data to Google Cloud on a weekly basis. What should you do?

Options

  • AUse Cloud Scheduler to trigger the gsutil command. Use the -m parameter for optimal parallelism.
  • BUse Transfer Appliance to migrate your data into a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster, and then configure a weekly transfer job.
  • CInstall Storage Transfer Service for on-premises data in your data center, and then configure a weekly transfer job.
  • DInstall Storage Transfer Service for on-premises data on a Google Cloud virtual machine, and then configure a weekly transfer job.

How the community answered

(33 responses)
  • B
    3% (1)
  • C
    94% (31)
  • D
    3% (1)

Explanation

Explanation/Reference: Storage Transfer Service agents are applications running inside a Docker container, that coordinate with Storage Transfer Service to read data from POSIX file system sources, and/or write data to POSIX file system sinks. https://cloud.google.com/storage-transfer/docs/managing-on-prem-agents#:~:text=Storage%20Transfer%20Service%20agents,agents%20on%20your%20servers.

Topics

#Storage Transfer Service#on-premises migration#POSIX#weekly transfer

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