Cloud Connection
Can Cloud Rewind discover GCP BigQuery tables?
Yes, Cloud Rewind supports GCP BigQuery tables. To discover BigQuery tables, edit your GCP cloud connection, go to the Cloud Services page, and then add the BigQuery service.
Resources
What roles does Cloud Rewind service account need to protect GCP resources?
Cloud Rewind creates a service account and assigns the below roles to the service account.
The Role name and the purpose of the asking is explained in the below table.
Discovery - Permission required to discover the resources and its metadata.
Protection - Permission required to protect the resources and its metadata.
Recovery - Permission required to recover the protected data from the Primary region to the secondary/DR region.
| Roles | Discovery | Protection | Recovery |
|---|---|---|---|
| roles/compute.admin | TRUE | TRUE | TRUE |
| roles/deploymentmanager.editor | FALSE | FALSE | TRUE |
| roles/cloudasset.viewer | TRUE | TRUE | FALSE |
| roles/cloudsql.admin | TRUE | TRUE | TRUE |
Load Balancer
Does Cloud Rewind support internal TCP/UDP network load balancing?
Yes, it is supported.
Will Cloud Rewind recover the ports and forwarding rules associated with the load balancer?
Yes, it will be recovered by Cloud Rewind during the recovery.
Does Cloud Rewind support the target pools?
Yes, it is supported.
Does Cloud Rewind support health checks?
Cloud Rewind maps global health checks during recovery, but they will not be recreated.
Is cross region load balancing supported in external HTTP(s) load balancers?
No, only single region load balancing is supported.
Do Cloud Rewind support SSL proxy and TCP proxy load balancing?
Cloud Rewind is yet to support this feature
Does Cloud Rewind support the Network endpoint group(NEG)?
Cloud Rewind is yet to support this feature.
Does Cloud Rewind support SSL proxy and TCP proxy load balancing?
Cloud Rewind is yet to support this feature. Only Passthrough Network Load Balancers are currently supported.
Does Cloud Rewind support health checks?
Cloud Rewind maps global health checks during recovery and is recreated for regional health check.
GCP Instance
Will Cloud Rewind recover the firewall configurations associated with the instance during recovery?
Yes, Cloud Rewind recovers the associated firewall configurations.
If the same machine type is not available in the recovery region, how will Cloud Rewind handle it?
Cloud Rewind chooses a near higher configuration machine type in the recovery region.
Will Cloud Rewind restore the IAM roles assigned in the primary region to the recovery region?
Yes, Cloud Rewind will restore the IAM roles.
Does Cloud Rewind support regional managed instance groups/unmanaged instance groups?
Cloud Rewind supports unmanaged instance groups as of now.
If a primary region has startup and shutdown scripts configured, will it be restored during recovery?
If the scripts are available in the instance’s custom metadata, it will be recovered in the recovery region by Cloud Rewind.
Is the Guest environment supported during recovery?
Cloud Rewind will recover it if the VM instance is created using Google-provided “Public image”, which includes a guest environment installed by default.
Does Cloud Rewind support Preemptible VM Instances?
Yes, it is supported.
Does Cloud Rewind support instance templates?
Cloud Rewind is yet to support this feature.
If there is an instance template restricted to a particular zone, what will happen during recovery?
Cloud Rewind is yet to support this feature.
Is the auto-scaling feature in Managed instance groups(MIG) supported?
Cloud Rewind is yet to support this feature.
CloudSQL
Will Cloud Rewind recover the admin credentials associated with the CloudSQL?
Yes, Cloud Rewind will recover the admin credentials associated with CloudSQL.
What are the databases supported by Cloud Rewind in GCP?
MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.
Does Cloud Rewind support private IP (private services access)?
Yes, private IP is supported.
Does Cloud Rewind support multiple PostgreSQL versions?
Yes.
Does Cloud Rewind support read replica promotion in the recovery region?
Yes.
Will Cloud Rewind recover Multi-zone CloudSQL instances?
Yes.