Setting up a Google Cloud target

Prerequisites

  • Your HYCU Managed Service Account (HMSA) must have access to the target.

  • Only if you plan to select a service account other than the HMSA for performing all operations on the target. The service account must have access to the target.

Limitations

  • Storing data to a publicly available target is not supported.

  • Storing data to a target on which a lifecycle configuration is set is not supported and may result in data loss.

Considerations

  • You can set up the same target in multiple protection sets.

  • Storing data to a target that has Object Lock (WORM) enabled is supported.

  • Only if you plan to select a service account other than the HMSA for performing all operations on the target that will store the copy of backup data. The service account must have sufficient permissions also for performing operations on the target that will store primary backup data.

  • For Google Cloud targets with a soft delete policy enabled: R‑Cloud will automatically remove the policy from the target to ensure that your data is stored most cost-efficiently.

Recommendation

The exclude policy is automatically assigned to the bucket that is added to R‑Cloud as a target. It is highly recommended that you do not change this default configuration.

To access the Targets panel, in the navigation pane, click Targets Targets. Alternatively, in the Dashboard panel, click the Targets widget title.

Procedure

  1. In the Targets panel, click Add Add.

  2. Select Google Cloud, and then click Next.

  3. In the Target field, enter the name of the target.

  4. In the Size Quota field, specify the amount of storage space that should be used for storing data (in MiB, GiB, or TiB).

    Important  The specified amount represents a soft limit, therefore actual usage may exceed it.

  5. Use the Enforce quota switch to stop running backups if this target reaches its size quota. The backups will start running again after you increase the size quota of this target or assign a different policy to the entities. Such a policy must use a target with the sufficient size quota.

  6. Only if you want a service account other than the HMSA to be used for performing all operations on the target. From the Cloud Account drop-down menu, select the preferred service account.

    By clicking Add, you are automatically redirected to the dialog box that enables you to add the preferred cloud account to R‑Cloud, if not already added.

  7. Click Save.

The target is added to the list of targets in the Targets panel. For details on managing targets, see Managing targets.