Disaster recovery strategies in GCP - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Disaster Recovery Strategies with GCP

📖 Scenario: You work for a small company that wants to protect its data and applications from unexpected disasters like data center failures or accidental deletions. You will create a simple disaster recovery setup using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to keep a backup of a storage bucket in another region.

🎯 Goal: Build a disaster recovery setup by creating a Cloud Storage bucket, configuring a backup bucket in a different region, and setting up a lifecycle rule to keep backups for 30 days.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a Cloud Storage bucket named primary-bucket in the us-central1 region.

Create a backup Cloud Storage bucket named backup-bucket in the us-east1 region.

Configure a lifecycle rule on backup-bucket to delete objects older than 30 days.

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Companies use disaster recovery strategies to protect data from loss due to failures or accidents by keeping backups in different locations.

💼 Career

Cloud engineers and administrators must know how to set up and manage backup storage and lifecycle policies to ensure data durability and compliance.

1

Create the primary Cloud Storage bucket

Write the gcloud command to create a Cloud Storage bucket named primary-bucket in the us-central1 region.

GCP

# Your command here to create primary-bucket in us-central1

Need a hint?

Use gcloud storage buckets create with --location to specify the region.

2

Create the backup Cloud Storage bucket

Write the gcloud command to create a Cloud Storage bucket named backup-bucket in the us-east1 region.

GCP

gcloud storage buckets create primary-bucket --location=us-central1
# Your command here to create backup-bucket in us-east1

Need a hint?

Use the same command as before but change the bucket name and region.

3

Configure lifecycle rule to delete old backups

Write a JSON lifecycle configuration that deletes objects older than 30 days. Save it to a file named lifecycle.json. The JSON must have a rule with action type Delete and a condition with age set to 30.

GCP

gcloud storage buckets create primary-bucket --location=us-central1
gcloud storage buckets create backup-bucket --location=us-east1
# Write lifecycle.json content here

Need a hint?

The JSON must have a rule array with one object containing action and condition.

4

Apply the lifecycle rule to the backup bucket

Write the gcloud command to apply the lifecycle configuration from lifecycle.json to the backup-bucket.

GCP

gcloud storage buckets create primary-bucket --location=us-central1
gcloud storage buckets create backup-bucket --location=us-east1
{
  "rule": [
    {
      "action": {"type": "Delete"},
      "condition": {"age": 30}
    }
  ]
}
# Your command here to set lifecycle on backup-bucket

Need a hint?

Use gcloud storage buckets update with --lifecycle-file to apply the rule.