Hello Joshua,
The necessity to backup data in your App Engine environment is not overly intense. A data protection policy <https://cloud.google.com/security/compliance> is in place, covering backups and all kind of risks to data in the cloud. If you backup your data, you do what has already been done for you in a thorough and systematic manner. There is still a legitimate need to control your data and download it, and tools are in place to backup and restore <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/console/datastore-backing-up-restoring> . If you would like to set up an object versioning policy for your app environment, cloud storage buckets allow that <https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/object-versioning>. Each tool individually offers ways to backup data. The backup process does not include values stored in Blobstore or Cloud Storage <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/console/datastore-backing-up-restoring> . I hope this helps. Cheers! On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 2:29:17 AM UTC-4, Joshua Fox wrote: > > What do you do for backing up AppEngine data? > > From what I can see, there is no simple way to say "back up everything in > this GAE project" with a button-click or API call, nor even a way to do > this for most specific data-storage mechanisms. > > E.g., Datastore has a backup tool which has serious bugs that make it > inoperable. Blobstore has no backup mechanism. > > Do major users of AppEngine not have off-Google backups? True, GAE deals > with disk failure, but you have to protect against hacker vandalism as well > as team-member error. (One response I have received is "Don't make > mistakes." I won't bet on that.) > > The Google Data Liberation Front > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Data_Liberation_Front> seems to > have missed GAE. > > So, do you make do without? Do you write your own tools to backup (and > regularly restore), where Google tools are lacking? > > Joshua > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/dc99c816-cd59-4d99-a5a8-cb4d730d542e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
