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# How version management works

| **1) INTRODUCTION TO VERSION MANAGEMENT**
* 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.


| **2) THE BENEFITS OF VERSION MANAGEMENT**
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.


| **3) HOW VERSIONING WORKS**
* 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.
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* 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.


| **4) ADDITIONAL RESOURCES**
* [Create a bucket](https://wiki.leviia.com/en/article/create-a-bucket-on-your-leviia-dashboard-h47vp5/)
* [Create an object storage identifier](https://wiki.leviia.com/en/article/create-object-storage-identifier-in-your-leviia-dashboard-1as7ljn/)
* [How object locking works](https://wiki.leviia.com/en/article/how-object-locking-works-xtyxdy/)