Google PCA Practice Question: Managing Implementation and Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability

A company uses Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and needs to recover a database to a specific point in time within the last week, down to the second. Which feature should they enable?

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Point-in-time recovery (PITR) allows restoring to a specific timestamp within the backup retention period. Automated backups alone only allow restoring to the time of the backup. PITR uses write-ahead logs to replay transactions.

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Cloud SQL

Cloud SQL is a fully managed relational database service that lets you set up, maintain, and scale SQL databases (like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server) in the cloud without managing the underlying infrastructure.

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