I have been running 10000 iterations of Conjoint Analysis in R, using 8 virtual machines on the Compute Engine. I have worked over the last weekend and Monday, then suddenly, Google suspended the whole project stating I am mining crypto.
I have appealed multiple times, but till now there is no restoration. How can I secure my machines, if they don’t restore my access? My only request to Google is to restore the project so I can secure the machines, or at least let me recover the data, so I can salvage the project to a certain degree.
I don’t know how else to reach. I am willing to demonstrate exactly what I was doing. My livelihood is at stake here, please help, please.
B3stats; Hi. I can not answer how to contact Google customer appeals but here are some thoughts to consider. Somehow your VMs got noticed. What compute engines types were in use? GCP might take notice of a fleet of eight C2 or A2 at full computational speed that are crunching a logistical [hash-similar] database. Consider attempting to gain access to your project through any data protection options you selected. Were there any data protection options selected: persistent disks, VM snap shots, machine images, etc.? I will take your situation as a learning experience in how to off load super-critical data computations from GCP via snap shots and disk images. It is possible to setup a GCP virtual machine to export a snapshot to an external repository [see GCP documentation under “Manually importing boot disks”]. It may also be possible to push VM snap shots from one project to the storage of another standalone project. I am a rank GCP beginner who should never get into this situation. Good luck; pf.