October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
13h 5m
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We have previously mentioned that we can clone our instances. This will create a copy of our source instance, but it will be completely independent. This does not mean that we have a cluster or read-only replica in place. Once the cloning is complete, any changes to the source instance will not be reflected in the new cloned instance and vice versa. Instance IP addresses and replicas are not copied to the new cloned instance and must be configured again on the cloned instance. Similarly, any backups taken from the source instance are not replicated to the cloned instance.
This can be done from our GCP console or by using our gcloud command-line tool:
gcloud sql ...
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