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Application Consistent Snapshots

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Application Consistent Snapshots

Ensure that application consistent snapshots feature is enabled for snapshot schedules.

Application consistent snapshots are more reliable because they are created after making sure that current operations are temporarily ceased and any data in memory is flushed to disk.

Recommended Actions

Ensure that all disk snapshot schedules are application consistent.

Links

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/snapshot-best-practices#prepare_for_consistency

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