Solved: Backup and DR won't back up a balanced hyperdisk - Page 2

ericraskin

Hello all...

I have just upgraded an N2-highmem-2 VM to a new N4-standard-16 VM with a balanced hyperdisk as the boot (and only) disk. I have been using Backup and DR Backup Vault (simple backups) for the old N2 instance. When I try to configure the new N4 instance using the same backup plan, I get the following error:

Failed to schedule Backup: Invalid resource state for "projects/paslists/zones/us-east1-d/instances/bhncoa": VM has disk(bhncoa) with disk type https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/paslists/zones/us-east1-d/diskTypes/hyperdisk-balance...

How do I back up my new VM?

francislouie

Hi ericraskin,

Welcome to Google Cloud Community!

It appears that the issue you're encountering is related to the use of the Hyperdisk type as the boot disk in your new VM (N4-standard-16). Google Cloud Backup and DR (Disaster Recovery) may not yet fully support the new disk types like Hyperdisk, while Persistent disks are fully supported.

Additionaly, N4 Machine type only supports Hyperdisk Balanced and Hyperdisk Balanced High availability for its disk.

To Backup your new VM, you can manually use Snapshot for Backup. Here are the steps on creating snapshots of hyperdisk:

Go to the Google Cloud Console > **Compute Engine** > **Disks**.
Find the Hyperdisk Balanced boot disk for your VM
Click on the disk, then select Create Snapshot.
Provide a name for the snapshot, choose a storage location (e.g., regional or multi-regional for redundancy), and click Create.

For further insights on deploying Machine types & storage Disks. Refer to these documentation below:

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