Field |
Description |
Name |
Name of the backup destination.
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Type |
Backup destination type, either Single storage destination or Destination pool.
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Destination storage |
Backup destination storage which can be set to Local / Mapped Drive / Network Drive / Removable Drive, Cloud storage or FTP/SFTP. Selection varies depending on your backup module.
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Access Key |
The access key provided by Google Cloud Storage.
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Secret |
The secret key provided by Google Cloud Storage.
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Location Type |
The type of location where object data will be stored. There are 3 different location types provided by Google Cloud Storage. They are:
- Region
- Multi-region
- Dual-region
In selecting a location make sure to balance the latency, availability and bandwidth costs of users. For more information please refer to their website for details.
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/locations
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Location |
The specific location per location type.
Location Type |
Location |
Region |
- northamerica-northeast1 (Montreal)
- northamerica-northeast2 (Toronto)
- us-central1 (Iowa)
- us-east1 (South Carolina)
- us-east4 (Northern Virginia)
- us-east5 (Columbus)
- us-south1 (Dallas)
- us-west1 (Oregon)
- us-west2 (Los Angeles)
- us-west3 (Salt Lake City)
- us-west4 (Las Vegas)
- southamerica-east1 (Sao Paulo)
- southamerica-west1 (Santiago)
- europe-central2 (Warsaw)
- europe-north1 (Finland)
- europe-southwest1 (Madrid)
- europe-west1 (Belgium)
- europe-west2 (London)
- europe-west3 (Frankfurt)
- europe-west4 (Netherlands)
- europe-west6 (Zurich)
- europe-west8 (Milan)
- europe-west9 (Paris)
- asia-east1 (Taiwan)
- asia-east2 (Hong Kong)
- asia-northeast1 (Tokyo)
- asia-northeast2 (Osaka)
- asia-northeast3 (Seoul)
- asia-south1 (Mumbai)
- asia-south2 (Delhi)
- asia-southeast1 (Singapore)
- asia-southeast2 (Jakarta)
- me-west1 (Tel Aviv)
- australia-southeast1 (Sydney)
- australia-southeast2 (Melbourne)
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Multi-region |
- us (multiple regions in United States)
- eu (multiple regions in European Union)
- asia (multiple regions in Asia)
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Dual-region |
- nam4 (Iowa and South Carolina)
- eur4 (Netherlands and Finland)
- asia1 (Tokyo and Osaka)
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Storage Class |
There are 4 different storage classes provided by Google Cloud Storage. They are:
- Standard Storage
- Nearline Storage
- Coldline Storage
- Archive Storage
The selection of the storage class depends mainly on the speed of access, price and availability. For more information please refer to their website for details.
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes
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Bucket Name |
The name of the storage bucket for Google Cloud Storage.
Here are some basic rules for creating the bucket name:
- The bucket name should only contain all lowercase letters, numbers, dashes (-), underscores (_) and dots (.). Spaces are not allowed.
- The bucket name should start and end with a lowercase letter or number.
- The length of the bucket name should be within 3 to 63 characters.
- The bucket name cannot begin with the "goog" prefix. It cannot contain the word "google" or close mispellings, such as "g00gle'.
- The bucket name cannot be represented as an IP address in dotted-decimal notation, e.g. 192.168.1.10
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