Google Cloud
Google Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery Services
We design, implement and test backup and disaster recovery on Google Cloud, using Backup and DR Service, immutable backup vaults and cross-region architecture matched to your recovery objectives.
Recover Quickly, Whatever Happens
Outages, ransomware, accidental deletion and regional incidents are not hypothetical. What matters is how quickly you can restore service and how much data you lose, measured as recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO). Google Cloud provides strong building blocks: Backup and DR Service for centralized, policy-based protection, backup vaults with write-once-read-many immutability and enforced retention, cross-region snapshots and replication, and multi-region storage and databases. Protection only works when these are configured consistently and tested regularly.
Hanoi Technology helps you define recovery objectives per application, choose the right protection pattern, implement it as code and prove it works through regular restore drills. We protect Compute Engine, Persistent Disk, Filestore, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, GKE and Google Cloud VMware Engine workloads, as well as databases such as SQL Server, Oracle and SAP HANA. We also plan transitions for customers still on the legacy appliance-based model, which Google has scheduled for deprecation.
We approach resilience as a combination of technology and process. Backup plans and vaults are only one layer; recovery also depends on infrastructure templates, network and DNS changes, identity access during an incident, communication plans and clear decision rights. We document all of these in runbooks your operations team can follow under pressure, and we rehearse them so that the first real recovery is not the first attempt.
The Challenge
Common Gaps in Cloud Resilience
Problems we frequently find in backup and DR reviews.
Backups That Can Be Deleted
If an attacker or a mistaken script gains administrative access, backups stored in the same project with normal permissions can be deleted along with the data. Ransomware recovery requires isolated, immutable copies.
Recovery Objectives Never Defined
Applications are protected by a single default policy regardless of business impact. Critical systems may have too little protection, while low-value systems carry unnecessary backup costs.
Untested Restores
Backups run every night, but nobody has restored a full application environment in months. Missing dependencies, expired credentials or undocumented steps surface during a real incident. Recovery takes far longer than anyone planned for.
Inconsistent Coverage
New projects and resources are created faster than backup policies are applied. Without automated discovery and compliance reporting, gaps go unnoticed until something is lost.
Business Value
What You Gain
Ransomware Resilience
Backup vaults store backups in Google-managed, isolated storage with immutability and enforced minimum retention, protecting them from deletion.
Recovery Matched to Business Impact
Each application receives backup frequency, retention and DR patterns that fit its agreed RTO and RPO.
Centralized Policy and Compliance
Backup plans assigned at scale, with compliance views and alerts, make it clear which resources are protected.
Proven Recoverability
Scheduled restore drills provide evidence for auditors, insurers and leadership that recovery works.
Regional Failure Protection
Cross-region backups, replication and documented failover procedures keep services available if a region has issues.
Automation as Code
Terraform-managed backup plans and runbooks make protection consistent across environments and easy to audit.
A Backup You Have Not Restored Is a Hope, Not a Plan
Resilience is measured during recovery, not during backup. We treat restore testing as a core deliverable and schedule it as part of operations, so you know your real recovery times before an incident forces you to find out.
Every drill produces a short written report with achieved recovery times, issues found and actions taken, which gives leadership and auditors clear evidence of where you stand.
Our Services
Hanoi Technology’s End-to-End Google Cloud Backup and DR Services
End-to-end services to design, build and operate resilience on Google Cloud.
Resilience Assessment
We inventory workloads, current protection and dependencies, run a business impact analysis with application owners and define RTO and RPO tiers for each system.
- Workload and dependency inventory
- Business impact analysis
- RTO and RPO tiers
Backup Architecture and Implementation
We design backup plans, rules and backup vaults per tier, configure immutability and retention, and deploy everything through Terraform for repeatability.
- Backup architecture
- Vaults and backup plans as code
- Retention and immutability settings
Database and Application Protection
We configure application-consistent protection for Cloud SQL, AlloyDB and self-managed databases such as SQL Server, Oracle and SAP HANA, plus GKE workloads with Backup for GKE.
- Database protection policies
- GKE backup configuration
- Application consistency tests
Disaster Recovery Design
We design cross-region recovery patterns, from backup-and-restore to warm standby and active-active, including networking, DNS and identity dependencies.
- DR architecture
- Failover and failback procedures
- Cost comparison of patterns
Restore Testing and Runbooks
We write step-by-step runbooks and run restore and failover drills, measuring achieved recovery times against objectives and fixing gaps.
- Recovery runbooks
- Drill reports
- Remediation backlog
Managed Backup and DR Operations
We monitor job success, compliance and vault usage, respond to failures, and run scheduled drills as an ongoing managed service.
- Monitoring and alerting
- Monthly protection report
- Quarterly drills
Our Approach
Our Resilience Delivery Approach
From business impact to tested recovery in five steps.
- 01
Analyze Business Impact
We work with application owners to agree on the cost of downtime and data loss and set recovery tiers.
Deliverables: Impact analysis · Recovery tiers
- 02
Design Protection
We map each tier to backup frequency, retention, vault configuration and DR pattern, with cost estimates.
Deliverables: Protection design · Cost estimate
- 03
Implement as Code
We deploy backup vaults, plans, replication and monitoring with Terraform and integrate them into your landing zone.
Deliverables: Terraform modules · Configured protection
- 04
Test Recovery
We restore applications in isolated environments and run failover exercises, recording actual recovery times.
Deliverables: Drill results · Updated runbooks
- 05
Operate and Improve
We monitor compliance, onboard new workloads automatically and repeat drills on a schedule.
Deliverables: Compliance reports · Drill calendar
Use Cases
Backup and DR Scenarios
Situations our resilience designs are built to handle.
Ransomware Recovery
A company restores critical servers and databases from immutable vault backups into a clean project after a credential compromise, without paying a ransom.
Regional Outage Failover
A customer-facing application fails over to a second region using replicated databases and pre-built infrastructure templates.
Accidental Deletion
An engineer deletes a production table or disk by mistake, and the team restores it from a recent backup within the agreed RPO.
Audit and Compliance Evidence
A regulated firm presents restore drill reports and retention settings to auditors as evidence of its continuity controls.
SAP HANA Protection
An SAP environment on Compute Engine is protected with application-consistent backups and a documented restore procedure tested every quarter.
Legacy Appliance Transition
A team using the appliance-based Backup and DR model plans its move to vault-based backups ahead of Google’s published deprecation dates.
Technology
Backup and DR Technologies
Google Cloud services and tools used in our resilience designs.
- Backup and DR Service
- Backup Vaults
- Persistent Disk Snapshots
- Backup for GKE
- Cloud SQL
- AlloyDB
- Filestore
- Google Cloud VMware Engine
- Cloud Storage
- Cloud DNS
- Cloud Load Balancing
- Cloud Monitoring
- Cloud Logging
- Terraform
- Organization Policy Service
Platforms
Deliver Google Cloud Backup and DR on Your Preferred Platform
Why Hanoi Technology
Why Organizations Choose Hanoi Technology
Senior, Cross-Functional Teams
Strategy, data, AI, cloud and engineering specialists work as one team, so nothing is lost between hand-offs.
Proven Delivery
More than 50 projects delivered for clients in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Radical Transparency
A written update every week and a demo of working software every sprint, so you always know where things stand.
Cost-Effective Global Delivery
Experienced engineers from our Hanoi delivery hub, with working-hour overlap for every major time zone.
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Google Cloud Backup and DR FAQ
What is Google Cloud Backup and DR Service?
It is Google’s managed service for centrally protecting workloads such as Compute Engine instances, Persistent Disk, Filestore, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Google Cloud VMware Engine and self-managed databases. Backups are organized through backup plans and rules and stored in backup vaults, which are isolated, Google-managed storage with immutability and enforced retention. Policies, compliance and new resource discovery are managed from the Google Cloud console, Terraform or APIs.
How do backup vaults protect against ransomware?
Backup vaults provide write-once-read-many immutability and indelibility, so backups cannot be modified or deleted before their minimum retention period ends, even by administrators. Google documents enforced retention of up to 99 years. Because vaults are separate from your workload projects, an attacker who compromises a project cannot easily destroy the backups. We combine vaults with least-privilege IAM and separate admin roles for stronger protection.
We use the older appliance-based Backup and DR. What should we do?
Google has published a deprecation timeline for the legacy management console and appliance stack. Per Google’s documentation, it is deprecated as of September 30, 2026, new backups on the legacy stack end September 30, 2027, and standard restores continue until March 31, 2028. We assess which workloads can move to vault-based backups, plan the transition and keep legacy restore capability available for the required retention period.
How often should we test recovery?
Critical systems should be tested at least quarterly, and after major architecture changes. Less critical systems can be tested less frequently, but every protected application should have a documented and rehearsed restore at least once a year. We schedule drills in isolated environments so production is not affected, measure achieved RTO and RPO, and update runbooks after every test.
How much does backup and DR cost?
Costs depend on protected data volume, change rate, retention periods, number of copies and the DR pattern. Backup-and-restore is the most economical; warm standby and active-active cost more but recover faster. We estimate costs for each tier during design so you can make informed trade-offs, and apply lifecycle and retention policies to avoid storing more than necessary.
Can you protect workloads outside Google Cloud?
Our focus is protecting workloads running on Google Cloud, including those migrated from on-premises or other clouds. For hybrid environments, we design how Google Cloud fits into your broader continuity plan, for example as a recovery site for VMware workloads through Google Cloud VMware Engine. Where other backup products are already in place, we integrate rather than replace them unless there is a clear benefit.