Add bucket Windows instance

[wagner silva]

Is it possible to add bucket to the Windows instance as a permanent disk to backup?

[John (Cloud Platform Support)]

Cloud Storage Fuse allows you to mount Google Cloud Storage buckets as file systems [1]. But unfortunately this open source adapter is limited only for Linux or OS X systems as mentioned here [2]. 

There are many 3rd party tools  (i.e. Gladinet[3], ExpanDrive[4], Cloudberrylab [5]) that will allow you to mount a bucket and see it as a drive in Windows.  

On a side note, if you are only using GCS to store your backups, you can upload them from the disk using gsutil[6] or Cloud Tools for PowerShell[7].

[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/gcs-buckets#mount_bucket 

[2] https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gcs-fuse 

[3] https://www.gladinet.com/Google-Cloud-Storage/google-cloud-storage-windows-desktop.htm 

[4] https://www.expandrive.com/docs/map-network-drive/connecting-to-google-cloud-storage/ 

[5] https://www.cloudberrylab.com/drive/google-cloud.aspx 

[6] https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil 

[7] https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/google-cloud-powershell/#/google-cloud-storage