Google Bucket Soft Delete Mar '24

[srlarsen]

We received notification from Google that in March 2024 they are enabling soft delete on all our buckets by default. Will we need to disable this? If so, will it cause us any problems before we can get it disabled since they are enabling it by default?

[Mildur]

Hello Stephen

Immutable backups with Google are not yet supported by Veeam Backup & Replication. If soft delete means, that google enables versioning and immutability, it may affect your backup repository. And using soft delete to restore old versions of Veeam backup objects will lead to backup/restore issues and data loss.

I already informed our object storage team about the changes from Google. We will update this topic when we have more information.
Official google announcement: https://cloud.google.com/resources/stor ... unce?hl=en

Best,
Fabian

[veremin]

According to Google documentation, soft-deleted objects are special non-readable objects that are hidden from object listings unless a specific option is specified. In other words, this change should not affect any existing Veeam Backup & Replication deployments that utilize Google Cloud Storage. However, we will still try to confirm our assumptions with Google representatives beforehand.

Thanks!