Archive Storage

• 1: Overview
• 1.1: ServiceWatch Metrics
• 2: How-to guides
• 2.1: Manage Archiving Policy
• 2.2: Use Version Management
• 2.3: Archive Recovery
• 3: API Reference
• 4: CLI Reference
• 5: Release Note

1 - Overview

Service Overview

Archive Storage is a storage service suitable for long-term retention of large amounts of data. The user can set a schedule to automatically move infrequently accessed data stored in Object Storage to Archive Storage, enabling efficient storage configuration and cost management. Additionally, upon user request, data stored in Archive Storage can be restored to Object Storage for use.

Features

• Free Capacity Usage: When you create a bucket in Archive Storage, the bucket automatically expands or contracts based on the user’s data archiving and deletion. There is no cost for creating a storage bucket; you are only charged for storage usage.

• Stable Data Recovery: Data that has been stored long-term can be searched and reliably recovered within three hours. During data recovery, select the target file and the Object Storage bucket where you want to store the data to recover it.

• Cost Efficiency: By configuring Object Storage and Archive Storage efficiently according to the purpose and frequency of data usage, you can store and manage data at a reasonable cost.

• Convenient Use: You can conveniently use features such as creating buckets, setting archiving schedules, and data recovery in the Samsung Cloud Platform Console. After migrating data for all files in Object Storage, you can apply a source deletion policy.

Configuration diagram

Provided features

Archive Storage provides the following features.

• Archiving Plan Configuration: Set a schedule to perform Archiving on all files in the Object Storage bucket.
• Data Recovery: You can recover to the target Object Storage bucket and folder using folders or files stored in Archive Storage.
• Archiving status monitoring: You can check the Archiving status (success, cancelled, failed, in progress, pending, skipped).
• Recovery status monitoring: You can view the recovery status (success, canceled, failed, in progress, pending).
• Encryption: When encryption is set to enabled, encryption is provided via the SSE‑S3 method.
• Version Management: You can manage archived files by version and restore a selected version.
• ServiceWatch Service Integration: You can monitor data using the ServiceWatch service.

Component

Authentication key

To create and access the Archive Storage service in the Samsung Cloud Platform Console, an authentication key is required. Therefore, to use Archive Storage, you must create an authentication key.

Bucket

A bucket is the top-level folder, and all folders and files reside under the bucket. When you create an Archive Storage service in the Samsung Cloud Platform Console, a bucket is created, and you can then upload folders or files.
The bucket name creation rules are as follows.

• Bucket names must be at least 3 characters and at most 63 characters.
• Bucket names can only be composed of lowercase English letters, numbers, periods ., and hyphens -.
• Bucket names must start with a lowercase letter or a digit.
• Bucket names must not contain two consecutive periods.
• Bucket names cannot end with a period or hyphen.
• Bucket names cannot have a period and a hyphen adjacent to each other.
• Bucket names do not use the IP address format (e.g., 192.168.x.x).
• The bucket name cannot be admin.
• Bucket names must be unique within an Account/Region.
• The bucket name you previously used will be available after 1 hour.

folder

A folder (Folder) is used to logically group files.
The folder naming rules are as follows.

• Folder names can consist of Korean characters, English letters, numbers, and special characters.
• The special characters that cannot be entered are listed below.

File

File (File) refers to data stored in Archive Storage and is the same as a regular file.
The filename generation rules are as follows.

• Filenames can consist of Korean characters, English letters, numbers, and special characters.
• The special characters that cannot be entered are listed below.

Folder names and file names are separated by slash /. The following are examples of valid folder and file names.

Constraints

The limitations of Archive Storage are as follows.

Preceding Service

This is a list of services that must be pre‑configured before creating the service. Please refer to the guide provided for each service for details and prepare in advance.

1.1 - ServiceWatch Metrics

Archive Storage sends metrics to ServiceWatch. The metrics provided by default monitoring are data collected at 5‑minute intervals.

Basic Metrics

The following are the basic metrics for the Archive Storage namespace.

The indicators whose names are shown in bold below are the key indicators selected from the basic metrics provided by Archive Storage. Key metrics are used to configure service dashboards that are automatically generated for each service in ServiceWatch.

Each metric indicates, via the user guide, which statistical value is meaningful when viewing that metric, and among the meaningful statistics, the values shown in bold are the primary statistics. In the service dashboard, you can view key metrics using these primary statistical values.

2 - How-to guides

Users can create a service by entering the required information for Archive Storage and selecting detailed options through the Samsung Cloud Platform Console.

Create authentication key

To create and use the Archive Storage service in the Samsung Cloud Platform Console, you need to generate an authentication key in advance.

You can generate an authentication key at My menu > My Info. > Authentication Key Management > Create Authentication Key. For more information, refer to IAM > Create Authentication Key.

Create Archive Storage

You can create and use the Archive Storage service in the Samsung Cloud Platform Console.

To create Archive Storage, follow these steps.

1. Click the All Services > Storage > Archive Storage menu. Navigate to the Service Home page of Archive Storage.
2. On the Service Home page, click the Create Archive Storage button. You will be taken to the Create Archive Storage page.
3. Archive Storage creation page, enter the information required to create the service, and select detailed options.

   Category	Required status	Detailed description
   Bucket name	Required	Bucket name for performing archiving must start with a lowercase letter or digit and use lowercase letters, digits, dash-, period. to enter 3~63 characters period. cannot appear consecutively two or more times period. and dash- cannot be adjacent period. or dash- cannot be used to terminate IP address format not allowed admin name not allowed cannot use a bucket name already in use in the same region within the Samsung Cloud Platform Console For more details about buckets, see Bucket Naming Rules for reference

   Table. Archive Storage service information input fields
4. Summary Check the detailed information and estimated billing amount created in the panel, and click the Create button.
   • Once creation is complete, check the created resources on the Archive Storage List page.

View Archive Storage details

Archive Storage Details page consists of Detail Information, Folder List, Archiving History, Recovery History, and Tag tabs.

Follow these steps to view detailed information about the Archive Storage service.

1. Click the All Services > Storage > Archive Storage menu. Navigate to the Service Home page of Archive Storage.
2. On the Service Home page, click the Archive Storage menu. You will be taken to the Archive Storage List page.
3. Archive Storage List page, click the resource to view detailed information. You will be taken to the Archive Storage Details page.
   • Archive Storage Details page displays status information and additional feature information, and consists of Details, Folder List, Archiving History, Recovery History, and Tags tabs.

     Category	Detailed description
     Archive Storage status	Archive Storage status information Active: available Error: abnormal state while being terminated Deleting: service termination in progress
     Service termination	Button to cancel the service

     Table. Archive Storage status information and additional features

Detailed information

Detailed Information tab allows you to view the resource’s detailed information and edit it if needed.

Folder list

Folder List tab allows you to view the list and size of folders that have been archived.

Archiving History

Archiving History tab allows you to view the list of archiving performed over a specific period.

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• Query Period: Select the period to view the Archiving history
  • You can query up to a maximum of 90 days

• Status: Select the Archiving status
  • All, In Progress, Success, Failure, Canceled, Pending, Skipped can be selected

Recovery History

In the Recovery History tab, you can view the list of Archives that performed recovery operations over a specific period.

Tag

In the Tag tab, you can view the resource’s tag information, and add, modify, or delete it.

Archive Storage Encryption Configuration

You can configure the bucket to encrypt the data stored in it. After enabling bucket encryption, the encryption settings are applied to uploaded data. When encryption is used, the SSE‑S3 encryption key method and the AES256 encryption algorithm are applied.

To set up encryption, follow these steps.

1. Click the All Services > Storage > Archive Storage menu. Navigate to the Service Home page of Archive Storage.
2. On the Service Home page, click the Archive Storage menu. You will be taken to the Archive Storage List page.
3. On the Archive Storage List page, click the resource (bucket) to use for encryption. You will be taken to the Archive Storage Details page.
4. On the Archive Storage Details page, verify that Encryption is Not Used, then click the Edit button. The Edit Encryption popup opens.
5. After checking the use of encryption, click the Confirm button.

Archive Storage Terminate

To cancel Archive Storage, follow these steps.

1. Click the All Services > Storage > Archive Storage menu. Navigate to the Service Home page of Archive Storage.
2. On the Service Home page, click the Archive Storage menu. You will be taken to the Archive Storage List page.
3. On the Archive Storage list page, select the resource to cancel, and click the Cancel Service button.
4. After termination is complete, verify on the Archive Storage List page that the resource has been terminated.

2.1 - Manage Archiving Policy

You can add, modify, or delete archiving policies.

Add Archiving Policy

To add an Archiving policy, follow these steps.

1. Click the All Services > Storage > Archive Storage menu. Navigate to the Service Home page of Archive Storage.
2. On the Service Home page, click the Archive Storage menu. You will be taken to the Archive Storage List page.
3. On the Archive Storage List page, click the resource to view detailed information. You will be taken to the Archive Storage Details page.
4. Click the Add button of Policy Task. The Archiving Policy Add popup opens.
5. After entering the Archiving policy information, click the Confirm button.

   Category	Detailed description
   Archiving target	Select the Object Storage bucket for archiving Cannot be modified after initial configuration Only buckets within the same region can be added Buckets used in policies of other Arcvhie Storage cannot be selected
   target file	Select files for archiving Only All can be selected
   Policy work	When selected, archiving is performed on all versioned objects in Object Storage When Archive Storage version management is enabled: each version is managed separately When Archive Storage version management is disabled: managed by overwriting the current version
   execution time	Enter the archiving execution point Enter a number between 1 and 3,650

   Table. Archiving policy addition popup items

Modify Archiving Policy

To modify the Archiving policy, follow these steps.

1. Click the All Services > Storage > Archive Storage menu. Navigate to the Service Home page of Archive Storage.
2. On the Service Home page, click the Archive Storage menu. You will be taken to the Archive Storage List page.
3. On the Archive Storage List page, click the resource to view its details. You will be taken to the Archive Storage Details page.
4. Policy Actions In the list, select the policy you want to edit, then click the More > Add button on the right. The Edit Archiving Policy popup opens.
5. After editing the Archiving policy information, click the Confirm button.

Delete Archiving Policy

To delete the Archiving policy, follow these steps.

1. Click the All Services > Storage > Archive Storage menu. Navigate to the Service Home page of Archive Storage.
2. On the Service Home page, click the Archive Storage menu. Go to the Archive Storage List page.
3. Archive Storage List page: Click the resource to view detailed information. You will be taken to the Archive Storage Details page.
4. From the Policy actions list, select the policy you want to delete, then click the More > Delete button on the right. The Delete Archiving Policy popup opens.
5. After reviewing the Archiving policy information, click the Confirm button.

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Change Archiving Policy Status

You can enable or disable the Archiving policy to control whether it is executed.

To change the Archiving policy status, follow these steps.

1. Click the All Services > Storage > Archive Storage menu. Navigate to the Service Home page of Archive Storage.
2. On the Service Home page, click the Archive Storage menu. You will be taken to the Archive Storage List page.
3. On the Archive Storage List page, click the resource whose Archiving policy status you want to change. You will be taken to the Archive Storage Details page.
4. From the Policy Actions list, click the More > Activate or More > Deactivate button for the policy whose status you want to change. A popup notifying the change of the Archiving policy status will open.
   • Activation: Perform archiving according to the archiving policy.
   • Disable: Stops performing archiving.
5. Click the Confirm button. The status of the Archiving policy will be changed.

Cancel archiving operation

To cancel archiving, follow these steps.

1. Click the All Services > Storage > Archive Storage menu. Navigate to the Service Home page of Archive Storage.
2. On the Service Home page, click the Archive Storage menu. You will be taken to the Archive Storage list page.
3. On the Archive Storage List page, click the resource to cancel the Archiving operation. Then go to the Archive Storage Details page.
4. Click the Archive History tab.
5. Check whether the status of the Archiving policy to cancel the job in the Archiving history list is Pending or In Progress.
6. Click the Cancel button. A cancel confirmation popup will open.
7. Click the Confirm button. The Archiving operation will be canceled.

Understanding how Archiving works

The archiving behavior varies by archiving target as follows.

2.2 - Use Version Management

By enabling versioning on a bucket, you can manage all Object Storage versions in Archive Storage.
Using version control, you can view a file’s version list and select a previous version from the list to restore it.

Setting up version control

To configure the version control feature, follow these steps.

1. Click the All Services > Storage > Archive Storage menu. Navigate to the Service Home page of Archive Storage.
2. On the Service Home page, click the Archive Storage menu. You will be taken to the Archive Storage list page.
3. On the Archive Storage List page, click the resource to use the version control feature. You will be taken to the Archive Storage Details page.
4. On the Archive Storage Details page, verify that Version Management is Not Used, then click the Edit button.Version Management Edit popup opens.
5. After checking Enabled for version management, click the Confirm button. The Version Management on the Archive Storage Details page will be changed to Enabled.

Check version list

You can view and manage the list of file versions.
To view and manage the file’s version list, follow these steps.

1. Click the All Services > Storage > Archive Storage menu. Navigate to the Service Home page of Archive Storage.
2. On the Service Home page, click the Archive Storage menu. You will be taken to the Archive Storage list page.
3. Archive Storage List page, click the resource to view the version list. Archive Storage Details page will be opened.
4. On the Archive Storage Details page, click the Folder List tab.
5. Click the More > Version Management button of the file whose version list you want to view. The version list popup will open.

Delete version file

To delete unused version files, follow the steps below.

1. Click the All Services > Storage > Archive Storage menu. Navigate to the Service Home page of Archive Storage.
2. On the Service Home page, click the Archive Storage menu. You will be taken to the Archive Storage list page.
3. Archive Storage List page, click the resource to view the version list. You will be taken to the Archive Storage Details page.
4. On the Archive Storage Details page, click the Folder List tab.
5. Click the More > Version Control button of the file whose version file you want to delete. The version list popup will open.
6. Click the More > Delete button for the version file you want to delete. The version file will be removed from the version list.
   • After selecting all version files to delete, click the Delete button at the top of the list to delete them all at once.

2.3 - Archive Recovery

Archive Recovery

Recover from folder list

If you are not using the version control feature, you can recover by selecting the Archive file from the folder list.
To check and recover the archive file, follow these steps.

1. Click the All Services > Storage > Archive Storage menu. Navigate to the Service Home page of Archive Storage.
2. On the Service Home page, click the Archive Storage menu. You will be taken to the Archive Storage List page.
3. On the Archive Storage List page, click the resource to view detailed information. You will be taken to the Archive Storage Details page.
4. Click the Folder List tab.
5. Select the folder or file name to restore from the folder list. The Delete button and Restore button appear at the top of the list.
6. Click the Restore button. The Archive Restore popup opens.
7. After selecting the recovery information, click the Confirm button.

   Category	Detailed description
   Bucket name	Object Storage bucket name
   Original location	Original file or folder location
   Recovery target	Select the bucket to recover
   Overwrite	Select whether to use the overwrite function When selecting a bucket in Object Storage with versioning enabled as the recovery target, using the overwrite function stores the existing file with the same name as a previous version

   Table. Archive recovery popup items

Recover from version list

When using the version control feature, you can check a file’s version and restore it to the desired version.

To restore an Archive file using a version file, follow these steps.

1. Click the All Services > Storage > Archive Storage menu. Navigate to the Service Home page of Archive Storage.
2. On the Service Home page, click the Archive Storage menu. You will be taken to the Archive Storage List page.
3. Archive Storage List page, click the resource to view detailed information. You will be taken to the Archive Storage Details page.
4. Click the Folder List tab.
5. In the folder list, click the More > Version Management button for the file whose version list you want to view. The version list popup will open.
6. In the version list, click the More > Restore button for the version file you want to recover. The Archive Restore popup window will open.
7. After selecting the recovery information, click the Confirm button.

   Category	Detailed description
   Bucket name	Object Storage bucket name
   Original location	Original file or folder location
   Version list	Modification timestamp, version ID, Etag, and size information of the version to be restored
   Recovery target	Select the bucket to recover
   Overwrite	Select whether to use the overwrite function When selecting a bucket in Object Storage with versioning enabled as the recovery target, using the overwrite function stores the existing file with the same name as a previous version

   Table. Archive recovery popup items

Cancel recovery operation

To cancel the recovery operation, follow these steps.

1. Click the All Services > Storage > Archive Storage menu. Navigate to the Service Home page of Archive Storage.
2. On the Service Home page, click the Archive Storage menu. You will be taken to the Archive Storage list page.
3. On the Archive Storage List page, click the resource for which you want to cancel the recovery operation. You will be taken to the Archive Storage Details page.
4. Click the Recovery History tab.
5. Verify that the status of the recovery target to be canceled in the recovery history list is Pending or In Progress.
6. Click the Cancel button. A confirmation popup for canceling the operation will open.
7. Click the Confirm button. The recovery operation will be canceled.

Understanding archive recovery methods

The recovery methods according to the type of recovery are as follows.

3 - API Reference

4 - CLI Reference

5 - Release Note

Archive Storage