FeatureSep 16, 2026

You can now use auto-protection policies and resource labels to automatically protect Compute Engine instances and Persistent Disks at scale in Backup and DR.

You can now use auto-protection policies and resource labels to automatically protect Compute Engine instances and Persistent Disks at scale in Backup and DR. This feature allows you to automatically assign a backup plan to qualifying resources across projects based on user-defined labels. This feature is in Preview. For more information, see Automate resource protection.

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Support for backing up and restoring workloads managed via the legacy appliance management console is deprecated.
Key milestones for this deprecation include the following:
Backup and DR ServiceDeprecationSep 30, 2026
Note: These fixes and updates are available starting with Backup and DR release 11.0.17.496.
These fixes are not rolled out to the 11.0.16 release; we recommend upgrading the backup/recovery appliance to version 11.0.17 to receive these updates. Security Bulletin – Appliance:

You can now use auto-protection policies and resource labels to automatically protect Compute Engine instances and Persistent Disks at scale in Backup and DR.

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You can now use auto-protection policies and resource labels to automatically protect Compute Engine instances and Persistent Disks at scale in Backup and DR.

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