Google Cloud Storage Bucket

Set up Google Cloud Storage Bucket as a reliable, scalable storage solution for your GitHub repository backups in Cloudback with simple role-based access control.

About Google Cloud Storage Bucket

Cloud Storage allows world-wide storage and retrieval of any amount of data at any time. You can use Cloud Storage for a range of scenarios including serving website content, storing data for archival and disaster recovery, or distributing large data objects to users via direct download.

Set up Google Cloud Storage Bucket

To set up Google Cloud Storage as a storage for your backups, follow the steps below.

Create a new Google Cloud storage

• Open the Cloudback Dashboard

• Navigate to the Storages page by clicking on the Storages link in the left-side navigation pane

• Click on the + New storage button:

Add new storage

• Type a storage name in the Storage name field. Use a name that will help you identify this storage in the future.

• Select Google Cloud from a Storage Provider dropdown:

Google Cloud storage settings

Set up storage settings

Choose the settings for the storage:

• Deduplication type - enable or disable data deduplication. For more details, please refer to the Deduplication documentation

• Archive type - enable or disable archive password protection. For more details, please refer to the Password-Protected Archives documentation

• Archive name pattern - configure the archive name pattern, which is used to generate the name of the backup archive. For more details, please refer to the Archive Name Pattern documentation

Create a new Google Cloud Storage Bucket

To upload backups to Google Cloud Storage, you need to have a bucket. You can find more information on how to create a bucket in the Google Cloud Storage documentation. If you already have a bucket, you can skip this step.

Grant Storage Object Admin role

To upload backups to Google Cloud Storage, you need to grant the Storage Object Admin role to the service account that Cloudback uses to access the bucket. Copy the service account from the Step 2 field and grant the Storage Object Admin role to this service account.

Provide the bucket name

After granting the Storage Object Admin role, you need to provide the bucket name in the Step 3 field. Bucket name is required so Cloudback can upload backups to the correct bucket.

Save storage

Click on Save button to save the new storage. You can also use a Test button to check if the storage is configured correctly. After saving the storage, you can use it for storing backups of your repositories.

All storage settings can be changed later in the Storages page. To edit the storage settings, click on the Edit button next to the storage you want to edit.

Change the storage for a repository

You can change the storage for a particular repository in the Repository Details page. Also, you can assign it to multiple repositories through the Bulk Operations.

Learn more

• Customer Managed Storages

• Dashboard Overview

• Repository Details

• Bulk Operations

• Replicating Backups