Enable backup plans

This page describes the AlloyDB enable backup plans recommender which helps you detect instances where both continuous backup and recovery and automated backup plans are disabled.

The enable backup plans recommender analyzes instance metadata and recommends to enable at least one of these backup methods to protect your data and facilitate recovery.

Recommendations are generated daily.

Pricing

The AlloyDB enable backup plans recommender is available free of cost to all Google Cloud customers. For more information, see Recommender pricing .

Before you begin

Before you can view recommendations and insights, you must do the following:

• Ensure that you enable the Recommender API .
• To get the permissions to view and work with insights and recommendations, ensure that you have the required Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles .

  Tasks	Roles
  View recommendations	One of these roles: recommender.alloydbViewer or alloydb.viewer .
  Apply recommendations	One of these roles: recommender.alloydbAdmin or alloydb.admin .

See Grant access to other users for more information.

List reliability recommendations for enabling automated backups

You can list the enable automated backups recommendations by using the Google Cloud console, Google Cloud CLI , or the Recommender API.

gcloud recommender recommendations list \
--project= PROJECT_ID 
\
--location= LOCATION 
\
--recommender=google.alloydb.cluster.ReliabilityRecommender \
--filter=recommenderSubtype=ENABLE_CLUSTER_BACKUP_POLICY

GET https://recommender.googleapis.com/v1/projects/ PROJECT_ID 
/locations/ LOCATION 
/recommenders/google.alloydb.cluster.ReliabilityRecommender/recommendations?filter=recommenderSubtype=ENABLE_CLUSTER_BACKUP_POLICY

View insights and detailed recommendations

You can view insights and detailed recommendations about instances that require enabling automated backups using the Google Cloud console, Google Cloud CLI , or the Recommender API.

gcloud recommender insights list \
--project= PROJECT_ID 
\
--location= LOCATION 
\
--insight-type=google.alloydb.cluster.ReliabilityInsight \
--filter=insightSubtype=CLUSTER_BACKUP_POLICY_NOT_ENABLED

GET https://recommender.googleapis.com/v1/projects/ PROJECT_ID 
/locations/ LOCATION 
/insightTypes/google.alloydb.cluster.ReliabilityInsight/insights?filter=insightSubtype=CLUSTER_BACKUP_POLICY_NOT_ENABLED

Apply recommendation

To implement this recommendation, do the following:

1. Click Enable automated backupsin the Issuescolumn. An Enable automated backupswindow displays providing a recommendation.
2. Click View backup policy.

3. In the Data protectionwindow, depending on the recommended backup policy, do one of the following:

   • To enable continuous backups and recovery, click Editin the Continuous backups & recoveryfield.
   • To enable automated backups, click Editin the Automated backupsfield.

4. Set up a backup plan of your choice.

   For more information, see Automated backup configuration attributes .

What's next

• Google Cloud recommenders