In this chapter, we will learn how to back up and restore workloads in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Backing up and restoring workloads in any infrastructure (self-hosted or cloud-hosted) is one of the most critical operations you will need to make sure you have under control. Many organizations neglect this part of the operation, only to find out when it is too late how important having a backup is.
The second important thing in any environment is to make sure your backups are working by testing your restore process. Over my sixteen years in IT I have heard ...