[cosmodust]

I would suggest if you do host your database yourself consider taking the data seriously. Few easy solutions are using a multi zonal disk [1] with scheduled automatic snapshots [2].

[1] https://docs.cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/hd-types/hy... [2] https://docs.cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/create-snap...

[cube00]

Scheduled automatic snapshots are not the kind of consistent snapshots you need for a filesystem based backup.

[cosmodust]

Snapshots might break ACID for last few transactions but it will flush all in-memory writes before taking the freeze. Consider its 1 click solution, its good enough than losing everything?