Automatic Snapshot

[Montassar Dridi]

Hello 

Is there a way to create automated compute engine snapshots every day at google cloud. 

[Carlos (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hi Montassar,

To automate snapshots, you can use gcloud within a shell script. You can then schedule the script so it can be run automatically by cron job.

[Montassar Dridi]

thanks carlos

yeah I saw that script  and many other, but I just wanted to know if there is aw way to accomplish it through Google Cloud platform, or if there is an official script opened sourced by Google.

again I appreciate your help

[Carlos (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hi Montassar,

At the moment there is no direct way to achieve this.  We do not have an official script but there are plenty of examples written by the community. There is a feature request in order to have this functionality.

[Montassar Dridi]

thanks again for your help Carlos

I have another question around the same topic. The disk that I'm trying to take a snapshot of, is there a way to have a copy of it on my local machine(desktop), so I can use the data inside it in another project?

[Carlos (Cloud Platform Support)]

GCE snapshots are only useful within your Cloud Projects. If you need to to export a disk to another project, an easy way is to create an image from it. You can then use this beta feature to share the image. 

[José Antonio Moyano Acosta]

Hi Montassar.

And if I need to create a backup on Sundays? It's possible? Thanks!

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[Yui (Google Cloud Support)]

You can use the gcloud compute disks snapshot command to create your backups within a script. Here is an example. Now regarding the automation of running the script, you will have to run a cron job. This will also give you an idea of how cron jobs function and here are examples that I found that might be of assistance.