Compute Instances backup/restore approach

Google Cloud Compute Infrastructure
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What is the best approach to schedule Monthly/ondemand VM instances backup for multiple Vms in GCP organization .

I came across two methods -

Machine Image

Backup and DR service

Please let me know out of these 2 what will be more suitable in production env and what is the draw back or limitations with each. I mean which will be easy for backup and restore (when required).

as per this article , they have mentioned that backup and DR is not much mature .https://medium.com/google-cloud/schedule-machine-images-backup-and-dr-solution-for-google-compute-vm-instances-f8b605b04f95

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Hello @gcloudLearning ,

Welcome to Google Cloud Community!

You may use this document for Backup policy best practices.
See also [Best practices for Compute Engine disk snapshots](http://Backup%20and DR service)

Despite of many risks to your data, you might not be able to anticipate any risk but a strong backup and recovery plan will help you quickly return to normal operation. See Introduction to Google Cloud Backup and DR Service

I hope this helps