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<div class="block-paragraph_advanced">We're excited to announce a major enhancement to <a href="https://cloud.google.com/backup-disaster-recovery">Google Cloud Backup and DR</a>, making it simpler than ever to safeguard your critical Google Compute Engine virtual machines (VMs). You can now leverage the power of <a href="https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/tags/tags-overview">Google Cloud tags</a>, including inheritance, to  easily configure backup policies for Compute Engine VMs, ensuring consistent protection of your dynamic cloud environments.
<h3>The challenge of managing VM backups</h3>
Managing backups for a large number of Compute Engine VMs can be complex, especially when VMs are frequently added, removed, or modified. Manually assigning backup policies to individual VMs is time-consuming and can be error-prone, potentially leaving vital resources unprotected.
<h3>The power of tag-based backups</h3>
With our new tag-based backup approach, you can leverage the organizational power of tags to automate the protection of your Compute Engine VMs. Here's how it works:
<ul>
<li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">
Assign your tags: Apply meaningful tags to your organization, folders, projects, or directly to your VMs. These tags might reflect application names, environments (production, development, testing), or criticality levels.
</li>
<li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">
Create tag-based policies: Within Google Backup and DR, you can create backup policies with your desired backup schedules, retention periods, and recovery regions. After policy creation, you can assign them to specific tags.
</li>
<li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">
Automate protection: Any VM with a matching tag is automatically assigned the backup policy. New VMs inheriting those tags immediately gain protection.
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Benefits of tag-based backups</h3>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">
Simplified management: Drastically reduce the administrative overhead of configuring VM backups at scale by updating the policy attached to the tag rather than at an individual VM backup level.
</li>
<li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">
Consistent protection: Ensure new VMs with inherited tags from the project, folder, or organization are automatically protected without manual intervention.
</li>
<li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">
Flexibility: Adjust your backup strategies easily by modifying tags or creating new tag-based policies, including support for tags assigned using Terraform
</li>
</ul>
For example, you can easily tag all production projects with the tag backupdr-dynamicprotect:production. You could then create a backup policy that does the following:
<ul>
<li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">
Takes daily snapshots of VMs in those projects that inherit the backupdr-dynamicprotect:production tag
</li>
<li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">
Retains backups for 30 days
</li>
<li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">
Updates your <a href="https://cloud.google.com/backup-disaster-recovery/docs/create-plan/dynamic-protection#terraform">Terraform script</a> to include your new protection tag to ensure protection of every new Compute Engine instance that’s created
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Getting started</h3>
<ol>
<li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;">
Review the <a href="https://cloud.devsite.corp.google.com/backup-disaster-recovery/docs/create-plan/dynamic-protection.md" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Google Backup and DR documentation</a> on tag-based backups.
</li>
<li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;">
Develop a tagging strategy for your Compute Engine VMs.
</li>
<li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;">
Create backup policies that target your chosen tags.
</li>
<li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;">
Attend ARC205, <a href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next/session-library?filters=session-type-breakout&amp;session=ARC205" rel="noopener" style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;" target="_blank">Protect your critical workloads and recover your most critical asset - your data</a> at <a href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next" rel="noopener" style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;" target="_blank">Google Cloud Next</a>.
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title: 'Google Cloud Backup and DR upgrade: VM protection made easier'
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summary: |-
 <div class="block-paragraph_advanced">We're excited to announce a major enhancement to <a href="https://cloud.google.com/backup-disaster-recovery">Google Cloud Backup and DR</a>, making it simpler than ever to safeguard your critical Google Compute Engine virtual machines (VMs). You can now leverage the power of <a href="https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/tags/tags-overview">Google Cloud tags</a>, including inheritance, to  easily configure backup policies for Compute Engine VMs, ensuring consistent protection of your dynamic cloud environments.
 <h3>The challenge of managing VM backups</h3>
 Managing backups for a large number of Compute Engine VMs can be complex, especially when VMs are frequently added, removed, or modified. Manually assigning backup policies to individual VMs is time-consuming and can be error-prone, potentially leaving vital resources unprotected.
 <h3>The power of tag-based backups</h3>
 With our new tag-based backup approach, you can leverage the organizational power of tags to automate the protection of your Compute Engine VMs. Here's how it works:
 <ul>
 <li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">
 Assign your tags: Apply meaningful tags to your organization, folders, projects, or directly to your VMs. These tags might reflect application names, environments (production, development, testing), or criticality levels.
 </li>
 <li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">
 Create tag-based policies: Within Google Backup and DR, you can create backup policies with your desired backup schedules, retention periods, and recovery regions. After policy creation, you can assign them to specific tags.
 </li>
 <li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">
 Automate protection: Any VM with a matching tag is automatically assigned the backup policy. New VMs inheriting those tags immediately gain protection.
 </li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Benefits of tag-based backups</h3>
 <ul>
 <li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">
 Simplified management: Drastically reduce the administrative overhead of configuring VM backups at scale by updating the policy attached to the tag rather than at an individual VM backup level.
 </li>
 <li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">
 Consistent protection: Ensure new VMs with inherited tags from the project, folder, or organization are automatically protected without manual intervention.
 </li>
 <li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">
 Flexibility: Adjust your backup strategies easily by modifying tags or creating new tag-based policies, including support for tags assigned using Terraform
 </li>
 </ul>
 For example, you can easily tag all production projects with the tag backupdr-dynamicprotect:production. You could then create a backup policy that does the following:
 <ul>
 <li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">
 Takes daily snapshots of VMs in those projects that inherit the backupdr-dynamicprotect:production tag
 </li>
 <li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">
 Retains backups for 30 days
 </li>
 <li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">
 Updates your <a href="https://cloud.google.com/backup-disaster-recovery/docs/create-plan/dynamic-protection#terraform">Terraform script</a> to include your new protection tag to ensure protection of every new Compute Engine instance that’s created
 </li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Getting started</h3>
 <ol>
 <li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;">
 Review the <a href="https://cloud.devsite.corp.google.com/backup-disaster-recovery/docs/create-plan/dynamic-protection.md" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Google Backup and DR documentation</a> on tag-based backups.
 </li>
 <li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;">
 Develop a tagging strategy for your Compute Engine VMs.
 </li>
 <li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;">
 Create backup policies that target your chosen tags.
 </li>
 <li aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;">
 Attend ARC205, <a href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next/session-library?filters=session-type-breakout&amp;session=ARC205" rel="noopener" style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;" target="_blank">Protect your critical workloads and recover your most critical asset - your data</a> at <a href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next" rel="noopener" style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;" target="_blank">Google Cloud Next</a>.
 </li>
 </ol></div>
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