Downloading a Google Cloud SQL Backup

Question

I'm running an instance of Google Cloud SQL. A CMS connects to this and updates it. Then there are several replications that run websites. Someone using the CMS deleted a page by accident. There's a backup from 12 hours ago, but I don't want to restore to that backup because the replications will be off with all the other changes that have been made. I just want to grab the SQL dump of that backup so I can scrounge out one page and restore that content. But, I don't see any way to do this, the only options in the Google Cloud SQL Console are to Delete or Restore a backup. Is there any way to download a backup?

Answer 1

You can restore the backup to a different instance. Create a new instance with the same database version, then click restore on the old instance backup and pick the new instance as the target. Once the restore is complete, you can connect to the new instance and retrieve the content you are interested in.