About Filestore Enhanced Backups

Filestore lets you back up your instances on demand or automatically using a Backup and DR Service.

Backup options

Filestore offers the following backup options:

Standard backups : Filestore creates, manages, and stores standard backups in the same project as your Filestore instances. This is the existing Filestore backup offering that lets you create on-demand backups. For general information about how backups work, see backups overview .
Enhanced backups : Backup and DR Service stores and manages backups. This is a centralized, managed backup service that offers advanced features for data protection and management.

The following table shows the differences between standard and enhanced backups:

Feature	On-demand backups	Enhanced backups
Backup management	Filestore	Backup and DR Service
Tier availability	Basic , Zonal, Regional, Enterprise	Zonal, Regional, Enterprise
Backup secured against unauthorized deletion or changes	-	Immutable and indelible backups through backup vault
Automated backup frequency	-	Hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly
On-demand backup retention	Retained indefinitely until manually deleted	Retained until expired (by a backup rule) or manually deleted
Backups protected against source project deletion	-	✔
Centralized backup management across resources and projects	-	✔
Long-term (>1 year) backup retention	-	✔
Backups protected against source instance deletion	✔	✔
Customer-managed encryption (CMEK)	✔	Planned
Multi-regional backups	✔	Planned
Cross-region backups	-	Planned