Backup and restore in GCP - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Backup and restore

📖 Scenario: You work as a cloud engineer for a small company. They want to protect their important data stored in Google Cloud Storage by creating backups. You will create a simple backup and restore setup using Google Cloud Storage buckets.

🎯 Goal: Create a Google Cloud Storage bucket named primary-bucket to hold original files. Then create a backup-bucket to store backups. Finally, write a configuration to copy files from primary-bucket to backup-bucket to simulate backup, and a command to restore files back from backup-bucket to primary-bucket.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a Google Cloud Storage bucket named primary-bucket

Create a Google Cloud Storage bucket named backup-bucket

Write a gsutil command to copy all files from primary-bucket to backup-bucket for backup

Write a gsutil command to copy all files from backup-bucket back to primary-bucket for restore

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Backing up important data in cloud storage protects against accidental deletion or corruption.

💼 Career

Cloud engineers often set up backup and restore processes to ensure data durability and availability.

1

Create the primary storage bucket

Create a Google Cloud Storage bucket named primary-bucket using the gsutil mb command.

GCP

# Your command here to create primary-bucket

Need a hint?

Use gsutil mb followed by the bucket URL gs://primary-bucket/ to create the bucket.

2

Create the backup storage bucket

Create a Google Cloud Storage bucket named backup-bucket using the gsutil mb command.

GCP

gsutil mb gs://primary-bucket/
# Your command here to create backup-bucket

Need a hint?

Use gsutil mb followed by the bucket URL gs://backup-bucket/ to create the backup bucket.

3

Backup files from primary to backup bucket

Write a gsutil cp command to copy all files from primary-bucket to backup-bucket recursively for backup.

GCP

gsutil mb gs://primary-bucket/
gsutil mb gs://backup-bucket/
# Your command here to copy files from primary-bucket to backup-bucket

Need a hint?

Use gsutil -m cp -r to copy recursively and in parallel all files from gs://primary-bucket/ to gs://backup-bucket/.

4

Restore files from backup to primary bucket

Write a gsutil cp command to copy all files from backup-bucket back to primary-bucket recursively for restore.

GCP

gsutil mb gs://primary-bucket/
gsutil mb gs://backup-bucket/
gsutil -m cp -r gs://primary-bucket/** gs://backup-bucket/
# Your command here to copy files from backup-bucket to primary-bucket

Need a hint?

Use gsutil -m cp -r to copy recursively and in parallel all files from gs://backup-bucket/ back to gs://primary-bucket/.