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A retail organization hosts its production environment on Google Cloud. The environment includes a Cloud SQL relational database storing customer transactions and a Cloud Storage bucket storing product media files and receipt documents.
The database administrator needs to implement a recovery strategy that fulfills two specific requirements:
Which combination of recovery mechanisms should the organization implement?
This solution pairs Cloud SQL Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR)—supported by write-ahead/transaction logging and automated backups—with Cloud Storage Object Versioning to protect structured relational data and unstructured object data against accidental loss or modification.
Point-in-time recovery is the only native Cloud SQL mechanism capable of restoring to an arbitrary minute before a human error or data corruption event. Similarly, Object Versioning is the standard Cloud Storage feature designed specifically to preserve and restore overwritten versions of objects without having to restore entire storage systems.
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