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TusharG · 09-16-2022 03:34 AM

I am taking persistent disk snapshot using GCP Cloud Client Library APIs. disk.createsnapshot
Following are my questions

In case of persistent disk snapshot , we can specify the storage location to either 'MultiRegion Location' OR 'Regional Location' My questions are

In both the storage location cases, Does GCP internally create multiple copies of the snapshot automatically for High Availability & Resiliency ?
If yes , Does it cost ?
I didn't see any GCP documentation where they have mentioned " How many copies of snapshot is getting created? In which region / zone these copies are getting created. etc" Can some one share the documentation link where it is mentioned clearly.

Is there any API available by which we can copy snapshot from default location to another GCP custom bucket?
Is there any API available by which we can read the snapshot?

Your assistance will be appreciated

kumards

Depending on the location that you choose for the snapshot (multi-region or region), the snapshot is stored in a multi-region of regional Cloud Storage bucket. And (citing from this Cloud Storage doc: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/locations), data in Cloud Storage is stored redundantly across zones or regions, depending on the bucket location. So to your Q1, yes, snapshots are stored redundantly across zones or regions, depending on the location you choose.

For pricing details, please see https://cloud.google.com/compute/disks-image-pricing#persistent_disk_snapshots.

Afaik (going by the methods listed in https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/snapshots#methods), there's no API to "read" snapshot data or change the location of a snapshot.

I hope this helps.