Upgrading to Beam 2.7

• Upgrading to Apache Beam 2.7 and related dependency upgrades.
• Deprecating serialized backup and restore format in favor of the preferred Avro format. Individuals who still need to use serialized functionality can download previous releases.

Adding Avro Backup & Restore Support

• Backup and restore a Cloud Spanner database in Avro format.

An important bug fix and feature request

Included in this 0.0.2 version is:

• Improved documentation about latency and cost.
• A fix for issue #67 which pertained to backup and restore of databases with arrays
• Implementation of feature request in issue #69 which pertained to backing up on top of an existing backup

Initial Release

Included in this 0.0.1 version is:

• Backing up a Cloud Spanner database to Google Cloud Storage
• Restoring a Cloud Spanner database from Google Cloud Storage
• Performing basic validation of the backup and restore

Details on how to perform a backup and restore are available here.