Configuring Versioning for a Bucket

Functions

This operation restores an object that is mistakenly overwritten or deleted. You can use versioning to save, query, and restore objects of different versions. Versioning allows you to easily recover lost data due to misoperations or program faults. Versioning can also be used for retaining and archiving data.

By default, versioning is disabled for a bucket.

You can perform this operation to enable or suspend versioning for a bucket.

After versioning is enabled for a bucket:

• OBS creates a unique version ID for each uploaded object. Namesake objects are not overwritten and are distinguished by their own version IDs.
• You can download objects by specifying version IDs. By default, the latest object is downloaded if the version ID is not specified.
• You can specify a version ID to permanently delete a specific object. If an object is deleted with no version ID specified, only a delete marker with a unique version ID is generated, but the object is not physically deleted.
• The latest objects in a bucket are returned by default after a GET Object request. You can also send a request to obtain a bucket's objects with all version IDs.
• Except delete markers, storage space occupied by objects with all version IDs, excluding object metadata, is billed.

After versioning is suspended for a bucket:

• Existing objects with version IDs are not affected.
• The system creates version ID null to an uploaded object and the object will be overwritten after a namesake one is uploaded.
• You can download objects by specifying version IDs. By default, the latest object is downloaded if the version ID is not specified.
• You can specify a version ID to delete a specific object. If an object is deleted with no version ID specified, OBS creates a delete marker with a version ID of null and deletes the object whose version ID is null.
• Except delete markers, storage space occupied by objects with all version IDs, excluding object metadata, is billed.

Only the bucket owner can set versioning for the bucket.

Request Syntax

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PUT /?versioning HTTP/1.1 
Host: bucketname.obs.region.example.com
Date: date
Authorization: authorization
Content-Length: length

<VersioningConfiguration> 
    <Status>status</Status> 
</VersioningConfiguration>

Request Parameters

This request contains no parameters.

Request Headers

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

Request Elements

This request contains elements to configure the bucket versioning in XML format. Table 1 lists the request elements.

Response Syntax

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HTTP/1.1 status_code
Date: date

Content-Length: length

Response Headers

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

Response Elements

This response contains no elements.

Error Responses

No special error responses are returned. For details about error responses, see Table 2.

Sample Request

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PUT /?versioning HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.29.0
Host: examplebucket.obs.region.example.com
Accept: */*
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 03:14:18 GMT
Authorization: OBS H4IPJX0TQTHTHEBQQCEC:sc2PM13Wlfcoc/YZLK0MwsI2Zpo=
Content-Length: 89

<VersioningConfiguration>     
    <Status>Enabled</Status> 
</VersioningConfiguration>

Sample Response

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HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: OBS
x-obs-request-id: BF26000001643672B973EEBC5FBBF909
x-obs-id-2: 32AAAQAAEAABSAAgAAEAABAAAQAAEAABCSH6rPRHjQCa62fcNpCCPs7+1Aq/hKzE
Date: Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 03:14:18 GMT
Content-Length: 0