I am new to Google Cloud Bigtable and have a very basic question as to whether the cloud offering protects my data against user error or application corruption? I see a lot of mention on the Google website that the data is safe and protected but not clear if the scenario above is covered because I did not see references to how I can go about restoring data from a previous point-in-time copy. I am sure someone on this forum knows!
Updated 7/24/2020: Bigtable now supports both backups and replication.
Currently we create backups to protect against catastrophic events and provide for disaster recovery.
As of February 2017, Cloud Bigtable does not provide backups from user errors or application bugs at this time. We hope to make this feature available in a future release - there is no planned delivery date at this time. In the meantime you may make your own snapshots using HBase or a similar process.