Background functions support optional retries as a way to increase the likelihood of events being successfully processed when functions involve operations that may fail intermittently. Retries can be enabled when deploying via command line by providing the --retry flag, or in the Cloud Console when configuring triggers under Advanced options | Retry on failure.
Note that retries will be performed for up to seven days when retires are enabled. For this reason, Google recommends that a retry termination condition be included in the function definition, such as comparing the event's creation timestamp to the current time of execution.
As a convenience, background functions can be terminated in a number ...
