Enable disaster recovery backup of user storage on GCP, via Filestore

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We use Google Filestore storage for home directories on GCP. It offers a backup management, but to automate scheduling of backups it seems that they have no managed solution besides allowing the use of a REST API to start backups. This is then in turn something that can be scheduled for example using their Cloud functions service and a Python script + GCP service account etc.

This issue is created for parity with the cloud equivalent AWS's EFS service and Azure's Files services.

Related

• Enable EFS Backups on AWS #623
• Enable home directory backups with Azure File backups #624