Manage Archiving Policies

You can add, modify, or delete archiving policies.

Add archiving policy

To add an Archiving policy, follow these steps.

1. All Services > Storage > Archive Storage Click the menu. 1. Go to the Service Home page of Archive Storage.
2. On the Service Home page, click the Archive Storage menu. 2. Go to the Archive Storage List page.
3. Archive Storage List page, click the resource for which you want to add a policy. 3. Archive Storage Details Go to the page.
4. Click the Add button of Policy Action. 4. Add Archiving Policy The popup window opens.
5. After entering the Archiving policy information, click the Confirm button.

   Category	Detailed description
   Archiving target	Select the Object Storage bucket to perform archiving Cannot be modified after initial configuration Only buckets within the same region can be added Buckets currently used in policies of other Archive Storage cannot be selected
   Policy name	Enter policy name Enter using English letters, numbers, and special characters (- _) within 60 characters Cannot enter a policy name identical to another Archiving policy name
   Target file	Select files to archive All: Perform archiving on all files If a prefix is used in another Archiving policy, All cannot be set Prefix: Perform archiving on files that include the specified prefix Prefix input required when selected Prefix cannot start with / and cannot contain special characters (%<>#\`^
   Policy work	When selected, perform archiving on all versioned objects in Object Storage When Archive Storage versioning is enabled: manage each version separately When Archive Storage versioning is not used: manage by overwriting the current version
   execution time	Enter the archiving execution time Enter a number between 1 and 3,650

   Table. Archiving policy addition popup items

Edit Archiving Policy

To modify the Archiving policy, follow these steps.

1. All Services > Storage > Archive Storage Click the menu. 1. Navigate to the Service Home page of Archive Storage.
2. Click the Archive Storage menu on the Service Home page. 2. Go to the Archive Storage List page.
3. Archive Storage List page, click the resource to modify the policy. 3. Archive Storage Details Go to the page.
4. Policy Actions list, select the policy you want to edit, then click the More > Edit button on the right. 4. Archiving policy edit The popup window opens.
5. After editing the Archiving policy information, click the Confirm button.

Delete Archiving Policy

You can delete an unused Archiving policy.

To delete the Archiving policy, follow these steps.

1. Click the All Services > Storage > Archive Storage menu. 1. Navigate to the Service Home page of Archive Storage.
2. On the Service Home page, click the Archive Storage menu. 2. Go to the Archive Storage List page.
3. On the Archive Storage List page, click the resource to delete the policy. 3. Go 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. 4. Delete Archiving Policy A popup window opens.
5. After reviewing the Archiving policy information, click the Confirm button.

Changing Archiving Policy Status

You can enable or disable the Archiving policy to change whether the Archiving policy is performed.

To change the Archiving policy status, follow these steps.

1. All Services > Storage > Archive Storage Click the menu. 1. Navigate to the Service Home page of Archive Storage.
2. On the Service Home page, click the Archive Storage menu. 2. Archive Storage List go to the page.
3. Archive Storage List page, click the resource to change the Archiving policy status. 3. Go 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. 4. A popup window notifying a change in the Archiving policy status opens.
   • Enable: Perform archiving according to the archiving policy.
   • Disable: Stops archiving.
5. Click the Confirm button. 6. The status of the Archiving policy has changed.

Cancel archiving

To cancel Archiving, follow the steps below.

1. All Services > Storage > Archive Storage Click the menu. 1. Navigate to the Service Home page of Archive Storage.
2. On the Service Home page, click the Archive Storage menu. 2. Navigate to the Archive Storage List page.
3. On the Archive Storage List page, click the resource to cancel the Archiving operation. 3. Archive Storage Details page.
4. Click the Archive history tab.
5. In the Archiving history list, verify whether the status of the Archiving policy for which you want to cancel the job is Pending or In Progress.
6. Cancel operation button, click it. 6. A cancel operation confirmation popup opens.
7. Click the Confirm button. 7. The Archiving operation will be canceled.

Archiving operation method overview

The Archiving behavior based on the target is as follows.