How version management works

• Version management is a way of keeping several variants of an object in the same bucket, and allows each version of each object to be stored, retrieved and restored.
• This option must be activated if you set up object locking.

Version management has many benefits:

• To recover a version in the event of unintentional user actions or application failures.
• For data preservation and archiving.
• In the event of several simultaneous write requests for the same object, a version is created for each request.

• When versioning is enabled, the bucket can never revert to an unversioned state: all objects deposited after the option has been enabled will be versioned, and will receive a unique version identifier.
• You can, however, stop versioning, and all new objects placed will not be versioned.

• When deleting an object, a deletion marker is inserted instead of permanently deleting the object. The deletion marker becomes the current version of the object. If you replace an object, this creates a new object version in the bucket.
• By default, GET requests retrieve the most recent version. Older versions of an overwritten or deleted object can be retrieved by specifying the version in the request.

• Create a bucket
• Create an object storage identifier
• How object locking works

Updated on: 05/01/2024