Data protection environment overview

Before you start protecting data with HYCU for Google Cloud, make yourself familiar with the following terms related to the data protection environment:

Term	Description
HYCU for Google Cloud web user interface	An interface for protecting Google Compute Engine instances, applications running on Google Compute Engine instances or Google Kubernetes Engine clusters, and Google Cloud Storage buckets.
Projects	Containers that include resources managed as a group—instances, buckets, and temporary objects.
Protection sets	Groups that join together Google Cloud projects for which you have access permissions within a subscription.
Instances	Instances to which you can assign policies and for which you therefore provide data protection. Data is always protected at a granular level, allowing you to restore either the entire instances, individual disks, or individual files.
Applications	Applications running on instances or Google Kubernetes Engine clusters to which you can assign a policy and for which you therefore provide data protection.
Buckets	Containers in Google Cloud Storage holding your data to which you can assign a policy and for which you therefore provide data protection. Buckets can also be added to HYCU for Google Cloud as targets for storing backup data.
Targets	Buckets that HYCU for Google Cloud uses for storing backup data. Backup data can also be stored as snapshots.