GCP ACE · Question 32 · Domain 4.1: Managing Compute Engine resources
You need to implement a disaster recovery strategy for a critical Compute Engine instance. You want to capture the state of its persistent disk every night at midnight so you can restore it if data corruption occurs.
What is the MOST efficient way to achieve this?
Answer options:
Create a snapshot schedule and attach it to the persistent disk.
Write a cron job on the VM that uses gcloud compute images create every night.
Export the disk to a Cloud Storage bucket every night using a Cloud Function.
Enable Cloud Backup on the Compute Engine instance.
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