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Tag-Based Protection Made Easy


Scalable, Customizable, and Automated Backup Management

Managing backups across cloud environments can be challenging, particularly when dealing with large-scale infrastructure and constantly evolving workloads. With tag-based protection, organizations can automate backup assignments, ensure broad resource protection, and tailor policies to fit their needs – all through an open-source approach designed for flexibility and scalability leveraging Google Cloud Backup and DR.


Why Open Source? Flexibility and Customization

Traditional backup management often requires manual configurations, making it difficult to scale. By leveraging open-source automation, this solution allows users to:

  • Customize backup policies using VM tags that align with business needs (e.g., application, environment, or criticality).
  • Eliminate manual effort with automated backup assignments and removals.
  • Ensure bulk resource protection, dynamically adjusting backup coverage as infrastructure scales.
  • Integrate seamlessly with existing Google Cloud workflows, APIs, and automation tools.

With open-source flexibility, users can tailor backup strategies to fit their exact needs – automating, scaling, and adapting in real-time.


Scalable and Dynamic Backup Management

This approach provides:

  • Bulk inclusion/exclusion of projects and folders, simplifying administration.
  • Dynamic adjustments based on real-time tag updates.
  • Cloud Run automation to execute backups at scheduled intervals (hourly, daily, weekly, etc.).
  • Comprehensive protection reports, ensuring visibility into backup coverage.

Seamless Google Cloud Integration

To maximize efficiency, this open-source backup automation ensures:

  • Role-based access through predefined Google Cloud permissions (Tag Viewer, Backup, and DR Backup User).
  • Enhanced security by ensuring only authorized VMs are included in backup plans.

Get Started with the Open-Source Script

The backup automation script is available on GitHub, allowing users to customize and contribute to its development:

🔗 Explore the repository

By leveraging Google Cloud’s open-source backup automation, teams can effortlessly scale, automate, and customize their backup strategies – reducing operational overhead while ensuring critical resources remain protected.

By Ashika Ganesh – Product Manager, Google Cloud

Coming to India: Express, a faster way to back up with Google Photos

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Since introducing Google Photos, we’ve aspired to be the home for all of your photos, helping you bring together a lifetime of memories in one place. To safely store your memories, we’ve offered two backup options: Original Quality and High Quality. However, in India specifically, we heard from people using the app that their backup experience was at times longer and stalled because they might not always have frequent access to WiFi. In fact, we learned that over a third of people using Google Photos in India have some photos that hadn’t been backed up in over a month.


We want to make sure we’re building experiences in our app that meet the unique needs for people no matter where they are, so last December, we began offering a new backup option in Google Photos called Express backup to a small percentage of people using Google Photos on Android in India. Express provides faster backup at a reduced resolution, making it easier to ensure memories are saved even when you might have poor or infrequent WiFi connectivity.



Over the past week, we’ve started rolling out Express backup to more users in India and by the end of the week, Android users on the latest version of Google Photos should start seeing it as an option for backup. In addition to Express, you will still have the option to choose from the existing backup options: Original Quality and High Quality. And, in addition to rolling out Express as an additional backup option in India, we’re also introducing a new Data Cap option for backup. This gives users more granular daily controls for using cellular data to back up. People can select from a range of daily caps, starting at 5MB.


We’re starting to bring Express backup to dozens of other countries, rolling out slowly so we can listen to feedback and continue to improve the backup experience around the world.

Posted by Raja Ayyagari, Product Manager, Google Photos