# System Requirements for Google Cloud SQL for MySQL

To back up and restore MySQL data on a Google application, verify that your environment has the required software and a firewall.

## Software Requirements

- Packages that are required on access nodes:

  - Virtual Server Agent

  - MySQL Agent

- Access nodes that you run backup and restore operations on must have one of the following operating systems:

  - CentOS 9.x, 8.x, 7.x

  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x, 8.x, 7.x

  - Rocky Linux 8.x, 9.x

  - Oracle Enterprise Linux 8.x, 9.x

  - Windows 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012, 2022

Note

If you have network configuration enabled on the access nodes, before you deploy the Linux proxy, configure a firewall on the cloud proxy and on-premises. For more information, see Configuring a Firewall to Install the Virtual Server Agent on a Cloud VM or Instance.

## Supported MySQL Versions

- MySQL 8.4.x

- MySQL 8.0.x

Note

To back up and restore data using MySQL version 8 on Windows, install Microsoft Visual C++ libraries.

## SSL and TLS Support

SSL is supported for MySQL version 5.7 and later. The supported TLS versions to create Google Cloud SSL encrypted MySQL instances are TLS 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2.

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