Restoring Cold Objects

Functions

To obtain the content of an object in the Cold storage class, you need to restore the object first and then you can download it. After an object is restored, a copy of the object is saved in the Standard storage class. By doing so, the object in the Cold storage class and its copy in the Standard storage class co-exist in the bucket. The copy will be automatically deleted once its retention period expires.

Versioning

By default, this operation returns the latest version of an object. If the object has a delete marker, status code 404 is returned. To restore an object of a specified version, the versionId parameter can be used to specify the desired version.

Request Syntax

POST /ObjectName?restore&versionId=VersionID HTTP/1.1 
Host: bucketname.obs.region.example.com
Date: date
Authorization: authorization string
Content-MD5: MD5

<RestoreRequest> 
   <Days>NumberOfDays</Days> 
   <RestoreJob> 
       <Tier>RetrievalOption</Tier> 
   </RestoreJob> 
</RestoreRequest>

Request Parameters

Parameter	Description	Mandatory
versionId	Version ID of the Cold object to be restored Type: string	No

Parameter

Description

Mandatory

versionId

Version ID of the Cold object to be restored

Type: string

Request Headers

This request uses common headers. For details, see Table 3.

Request Elements

**Table 1** Request elements
Element	Description	Mandatory
RestoreRequest	Container for the restore information Type: container	Yes
Days	Indicates the storage duration of the restored object. The minimum value is 1 and the maximum value is 30. Type: integer	Yes
RestoreJob	Container for the restore options Type: container	No
Tier	Restore options: Expedited \| Standard Expedited indicates that objects can be quickly restored from Archive storage within 1 to 5 minutes. Standard indicates that objects can be restored from Archive storage within 3 to 5 hours. The default value is Standard. Type: string	No

Response Syntax

1 2	HTTP/1.1 status_code Date: date

Response Headers

The response to the request uses common headers. For details, see Table 1.

Response Elements

This response contains no elements.

Error Responses

**Table 2** List of OBS access error codes
Error Code	Description	HTTP Status Code
RestoreAlreadyInProgress	The object is being restored. The request conflicts with another. ErrorMessage: Object restore is already in progress	409 Conflict
ObjectHasAlreadyRestored	The objects have been restored and the retention period of the objects cannot be shortened. ErrorMessage: After restoring an archived object, you cannot shorten the restoration period of the archived object	409 Conflict
MalformedXML	Invalid value for the Days field (not an integer) ErrorMessage: The XML you provided was not well-formed or did not validate against our published schema	400 Bad Request
InvalidArgument	The value of the Days field is not within the range of 1 to 30. ErrorMessage: restoration days should be at least 1 and at most 30	400 Bad Request
MalformedXML	Invalid value for the Tier field. ErrorMessage: The XML you provided was not well-formed or did not validate against our published schema	400 Bad Request
InvalidObjectState	The restored object is not in the Cold storage. ErrorMessage: Restore is not allowed, as object's storage class is not COLD	403 Forbidden

Sample Request

POST /object?restore HTTP/1.1
Host: examplebucket.obs.region.example.com
Accept: */*
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 04:39:46 GMT
Authorization: OBS H4IPJX0TQTHTHEBQQCEC:kaEwOixnSVuS6If3Q0Lnd6kxm5A=
Content-Length: 183

<RestoreRequest>
   <Days>2</Days> 
   <RestoreJob>
     <Tier>Expedited</Tier>
   </RestoreJob> 
</RestoreRequest>

Sample Response

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
Server: OBS
x-obs-request-id: A2F500000163F374CCBB2063F834C6C4
x-obs-id-2: 32AAAUgAIAABAAAQAAEAABAAAQAAEAABCSLbWIs23RR95NVpkbWlJdlm8Dq+wQBw
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 04:39:46 GMT
Content-Length: 0

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