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Recipe: Performing Google Cloud Spanner Instance Restore to a different location

Expected deliverables:

An entire Google Cloud Spanner instance recovered at the time of backup state.

Time to complete: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

A Google Cloud Spanner backup
A Worker Configuration in the same region in which the repository with backed-up data is located, if restoring from an image-level backup.
The original Cloud Spanner instance has been removed more than 1 week ago.

Before you start: Veeam Backup for Google Cloud does not support restore to the original location if the source Cloud Spanner instance is still present in the location, if it has been recently deleted (less than a week ago), or if its name is reserved.

Assumptions:

You have an existing Veeam Backup for Google Cloud deployment, and backups of one or more Google Cloud Spanner databases.

Method:

Login the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud web interface.
Navigate to Protected Data > Cloud Spanner. Select the Cloud Spanner instance that you want to restore, and click Restore > Instance Restore.
At the Instances step, select a restore point that will be used to restore the selected Cloud Spanner instance (by default the most recent restore point). Click Next.
At the Restore Mode step , choose that you want to restore the selected Cloud Spanner instance to the original location.
At the Project step, select a project where the restored Cloud Spanner instance will be created and a service account with proper privileges to complete the restore operation.
At the Region step, select whether you want to restore as Regional or Multi-Regional instance.
- Select the regions where the restored Cloud Spanner instance will operate.
- You can also add optional read-only replicas for the restored Cloud Spanner instance.
At the Instance Settings step, select each Cloud Spanner instance to be restored and click Edit if you want to change the name and/or ID, and also change the compute capacity.
At the Encryption step, choose whether the restored Cloud Spanner instance will be encrypted with customer-managed encryption keys (CMEKs), Google-managed encrypion keys, or will keep the original encryption scheme (default).
At the Verification step, check all verifications are Passed, or double check the previous steps and pre-requisites in case of any warning or error.
At the Reason step, specify a reason for restoring the Cloud Spanner instance. Click Next.
At the Summary step, review summary information and click Finish.

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