The enable backup plans recommender analyzes instance metadata and recommends to enable at least one of these backup methods to protect your data and facilitate recovery.
Recommendations are generated daily.
Pricing
The AlloyDB enable backup plans recommender
is available free of cost to all Google Cloud customers.
For more information, see Recommender pricing.
Before you begin
Before you can view recommendations and insights, you must do the following:
GET https://recommender.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/LOCATION/recommenders/google.alloydb.cluster.ReliabilityRecommender/recommendations?filter=recommenderSubtype=ENABLE_CLUSTER_BACKUP_POLICY
Replace the following:
PROJECT_ID: your project ID.
LOCATION: the region where your instances are located, such as us-central1.
View insights and detailed recommendations
You can view insights and detailed recommendations about instances
that require enabling automated backups using the Google Cloud console,
Google Cloud CLI, or the Recommender API.
Console
To view insights and detailed recommendations about instances that require enabling automated backups, click the recommendation link in the list of instances on the Clusters page.
gcloud CLI
To view insights and detailed recommendations about instances that require enabling automated backups, run the
gcloud recommender insights list
command as follows:
LOCATION: the region where your instances are located, such as us-central1.
API
To view insights and detailed recommendations about instances that require enabling automated backups, use the
Recommendations API, call the
insights.list
method as follows:
GET https://recommender.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/LOCATION/insightTypes/google.alloydb.cluster.ReliabilityInsight/insights?filter=insightSubtype=CLUSTER_BACKUP_POLICY_NOT_ENABLED
Replace the following:
PROJECT_ID: your project ID.
LOCATION: the region where your instances are located, such as us-central1.
Apply recommendation
To implement this recommendation, do the following:
Click Enable automated backups in the Issues column.
An Enable automated backups window displays providing a recommendation.
Click View backup policy.
In the Data protection window, depending on the recommended backup policy, do one of the following:
To enable continuous backups and recovery, click Edit in the Continuous backups & recovery field.
To enable automated backups, click Edit in the Automated backups field.
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Hard to understand","hardToUnderstand","thumb-down"],["Incorrect information or sample code","incorrectInformationOrSampleCode","thumb-down"],["Missing the information/samples I need","missingTheInformationSamplesINeed","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2025-09-04 UTC."],[],[],null,["# Enable backup plans\n\nThis page describes the AlloyDB enable backup plans [recommender](/recommender/docs/overview) which helps you detect instances where both [continuous backup and recovery](/alloydb/docs/backup/overview#continuous) and [automated backup plans](/alloydb/docs/backup/overview#automated) are disabled.\n\nThe enable backup plans recommender analyzes instance metadata and recommends to enable at least one of these backup methods to protect your data and facilitate recovery.\n| **Note:** Google Cloud recommends using continuous backup and recovery because it offers more granular recovery capabilities and reduces potential data loss compared to automated backups.\n\nRecommendations are generated daily.\n\nPricing\n-------\n\nThe AlloyDB enable backup plans recommender\nis available free of cost to all Google Cloud customers.\nFor more information, see [Recommender pricing](/recommender/pricing).\n\nBefore you begin\n----------------\n\nBefore you can view recommendations and insights, you must do the following:\n\n- Ensure that you [enable the Recommender API](/recommender/docs/enabling).\n- To get the permissions to view and work with insights and recommendations, ensure that you have the required [Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles](/alloydb/docs/reference/iam-roles-permissions).\n\nSee [Grant access to other users](/alloydb/docs/user-grant-access) for more information.\n\nList reliability recommendations for enabling automated backups\n---------------------------------------------------------------\n\nYou can list the enable automated backups recommendations by\nusing the Google Cloud console, `Google Cloud CLI`, or the Recommender API. \n\n### Console\n\nTo list enable automated backups recommendations using the\nGoogle Cloud console, follow these steps:\n\n1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the **Clusters** page.\n\n [Go to Clusters](https://console.cloud.google.com/alloydb/clusters)\n\n For more information, see\n [Getting started with Recommendation Hub](/recommender/docs/recommendation-hub/identify-configuration-problems).\n2. In the **Data protection** card, click **No backup policy enabled**.\n\n3. Under the **Resources** table, select instances with the **No backup policy enabled** recommendation.\n\n### gcloud CLI\n\nTo list enable automated backups recommendations using gcloud CLI, run the\n[`gcloud recommender recommendations list`](/sdk/gcloud/reference/recommender/recommendations/list)\ncommand as follows: \n\n```\ngcloud recommender recommendations list \\\n--project=PROJECT_ID \\\n--location=LOCATION \\\n--recommender=google.alloydb.cluster.ReliabilityRecommender \\\n--filter=recommenderSubtype=ENABLE_CLUSTER_BACKUP_POLICY\n```\n\nReplace the following:\n\n- \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003ePROJECT_ID\u003c/var\u003e: your project ID.\n- \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003eLOCATION\u003c/var\u003e: the region where your instances are located, such as `us-central1`.\n\n### API\n\nTo list enable automated backups recommendations using the\n[Recommendations API](/recommender/docs/using-api), call the\n[`recommendations.list`](/recommender/docs/reference/rest/v1/projects.locations.recommenders.recommendations/list)\nmethod as follows: \n\n```\nGET https://recommender.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/LOCATION/recommenders/google.alloydb.cluster.ReliabilityRecommender/recommendations?filter=recommenderSubtype=ENABLE_CLUSTER_BACKUP_POLICY\n```\n\nReplace the following:\n\n- \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003ePROJECT_ID\u003c/var\u003e: your project ID.\n- \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003eLOCATION\u003c/var\u003e: the region where your instances are located, such as `us-central1`.\n\nView insights and detailed recommendations\n------------------------------------------\n\nYou can view insights and detailed recommendations about instances\nthat require enabling automated backups using the Google Cloud console,\n`Google Cloud CLI`, or the Recommender API. \n\n### Console\n\nTo view insights and detailed recommendations about instances that require enabling automated backups, click the recommendation link in the list of instances on the **Clusters** page.\n\n### gcloud CLI\n\nTo view insights and detailed recommendations about instances that require enabling automated backups, run the\n[`gcloud recommender insights list`](/sdk/gcloud/reference/recommender/insights/list)\ncommand as follows: \n\n```\ngcloud recommender insights list \\\n--project=PROJECT_ID \\\n--location=LOCATION \\\n--insight-type=google.alloydb.cluster.ReliabilityInsight \\\n--filter=insightSubtype=CLUSTER_BACKUP_POLICY_NOT_ENABLED\n```\n\nReplace the following:\n\n- \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003ePROJECT_ID\u003c/var\u003e: your project ID.\n- \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003eLOCATION\u003c/var\u003e: the region where your instances are located, such as `us-central1`.\n\n### API\n\nTo view insights and detailed recommendations about instances that require enabling automated backups, use the\n[Recommendations API](/recommender/docs/using-api), call the\n[`insights.list`](/recommender/docs/reference/rest/v1/projects.locations.insightTypes.insights/list)\nmethod as follows: \n\n```\nGET https://recommender.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/LOCATION/insightTypes/google.alloydb.cluster.ReliabilityInsight/insights?filter=insightSubtype=CLUSTER_BACKUP_POLICY_NOT_ENABLED\n```\n\nReplace the following:\n\n- \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003ePROJECT_ID\u003c/var\u003e: your project ID.\n- \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003eLOCATION\u003c/var\u003e: the region where your instances are located, such as `us-central1`.\n\nApply recommendation\n--------------------\n\nTo implement this recommendation, do the following:\n\n1. Click **Enable automated backups** in the **Issues** column. An **Enable automated backups** window displays providing a recommendation.\n2. Click **View backup policy**.\n3. In the **Data protection** window, depending on the recommended backup policy, do one of the following:\n\n - To enable continuous backups and recovery, click **Edit** in the **Continuous backups \\& recovery** field.\n - To enable automated backups, click **Edit** in the **Automated backups** field.\n4. Set up a backup plan of your choice.\n\n For more information, see [Automated backup configuration attributes](/alloydb/docs/backup/configure#attributes).\n\nWhat's next\n-----------\n\n- [Google Cloud recommenders](/recommender/docs/recommenders)"]]
