How to create and rotate Automatic Snapshot?

Question

Snapshots can be taken on compute engines, which are basically backups. how can we create a script for automated snapshots every day and need to delete the older ones. Google Cloud doesn't have an option of scheduled backups of the server. Is there any provision to create automated snapshots.

Answer 1

For creating the snapshot here is the below command that will you to create a snapshot.

gcloud compute disks snapshot DISK

For more details, refer to this GCP training.