SQL Backup Configuration Should Be Enabled
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Ensure that SQL Instances have Backup Configuration enabled.Risk Level
LowAddress
Reliability, SecurityCompliance Standards
SOC2, NISTCSF, PCIDSSTriage and Remediation
Remediation
Using Console
Using Console
To remediate the misconfiguration “SQL Backup Configuration Should Be Enabled” in GCP using the GCP console, you can follow the below steps:
- Open the GCP console and navigate to the Cloud SQL Instances page.
- Select the instance for which you want to enable SQL backup configuration.
- Click on the “Edit” button at the top of the page.
- In the “Backup” section, select the “Enable automatic backups” checkbox.
- Choose the backup start time and frequency as per your requirement.
- You can also configure the retention period for backups and specify the storage location for backups.
- Click on “Save” to save the changes.
- Once the backup configuration is enabled, you can verify it by navigating to the “Backups” tab on the Cloud SQL instance page.
Using CLI
Using CLI
To remediate the SQL Backup Configuration Should Be Enabled misconfiguration for GCP using GCP CLI, follow these steps:Replace [INSTANCE_NAME] with the name of your SQL instance and [BACKUP_START_TIME] with the time of day you want to start the backup, in the format HH:MM in the UTC timezone. For example, if you want to start the backup at 2:00 AM UTC, the command would be:This command should return output similar to the following:If the output shows that backupConfiguration is enabled with the desired start time, then the remediation is successful.Note: Enabling backup configuration may incur additional costs. Please refer to the GCP pricing documentation for more information.
- Open the Cloud Shell in your GCP Console.
- Run the following command to list all the SQL instances in your GCP project:
- Identify the SQL instance that you want to enable backup configuration for and note down its instance name.
- Run the following command to enable backup configuration for the identified SQL instance:
- Verify that the backup configuration has been enabled by running the following command:
Using Python
Using Python
To remediate the misconfiguration “SQL Backup Configuration Should Be Enabled” in GCP using Python, you can follow the below steps:
- Import the necessary libraries:
- Set up the credentials:
- Get the list of instances:
- Loop through each instance and check if the backup configuration is enabled:
- Run the script to enable the backup configuration for all the instances in the project.