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May I ask what is the planned use case for the RDB/AOF replication? Are you expecting to have access to the snapshots while the instance is running, or you just need them for import/export or durability reasons?

Disclaimer: I am an engineer at Google on the managed Redis team.

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Use case for RDB backups: for rather large redis datasets (>50GB) with long living keys (90days and beyond) I found it useful to be able to parse an RDB snapshot using the python rdbtools and iterate over the whole dataset, e.g. in order to migrate data to a different format. I found this usually more stable and reliable than using SCAN and the likes.

For this use case it seems the export feature that allows you to take a snapshot of the database at any given time might fit the needs. We will definitely consider this feature for the general availability release.

Thanks for the reply!

I wasn't aware of an export feature. As long as the export comes in a reasonable machine readable format that should be equally fine and would remove the need for access to RDB files for my use case.

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