Managing Archiving Policies

You can add, modify, or delete archiving policies.

Add Archiving Policy

To add an Archiving policy, follow the steps below.

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. Archive Storage List Navigate to the page.
3. Archive Storage List page, click the resource to view detailed information. 3. Archive Storage Details Navigate to the page.
4. Click the Add button of Policy Task. 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 used in policies of other Arcvhie Storage cannot be selected
   Policy name	Enter policy name Enter within 60 characters using English letters, numbers, and special 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 The prefix cannot start with / and cannot contain special characters(%<>#\`^)
   Policy work	When selected, perform archiving on all versioned objects in Object Storage When version management of Archive Storage is enabled: manage each version separately When version management of Archive Storage is not used: manage by overwriting the current version
   execution time	Enter the archiving execution time 1 to 3,650 as a number

   Table. Archiving policy addition popup items

Modify Archiving Policy

To modify the Archiving policy, follow the steps below.

1. All Services > Storage > Archive Storage menu, click it. 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. Archive Storage List Click the resource on the page to view its detailed information. 3. Go to the Archive Storage Details page.
4. From the Policy Actions list, select the policy you want to edit, then click the More > Add button on the right. 4. Archiving policy edit The popup window opens.
5. After modifying the Archiving policy information, click the Confirm button.

Delete Archiving Policy

You can delete unused Archiving policies.

To delete 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. On the Service Home page, click the Archive Storage menu. 2. Go to the Archive Storage List page.
3. Archive Storage List On the page, click the resource to view detailed information. 3. Archive Storage Details Navigate to the page.
4. Policy Actions After selecting the policy you wish to delete from the list, click the More > Delete button on the right. 4. Delete Archiving Policy popup opens.
5. After checking 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 executed.

To change the Archiving policy status, follow the steps below.

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 change the Archiving policy status. 3. Archive Storage Details Navigate to the page.
4. In 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 the change of the Archiving policy status opens.
   • Enable: Perform archiving according to the archiving policy.
   • Disable: Stop performing archiving.
5. Click the Confirm button. 6. The status of the Archiving policy will change.

Cancel Archiving operation

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. Go 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 Navigate to the page.
4. Archive History Click the tab.
5. In the Archiving history list, verify that the status of the Archiving policy to cancel the job is Pending or In progress.
6. Click the Cancel operation button. 6. A confirmation popup for canceling the operation opens.
7. Click the Confirm button. 7. The Archiving operation will be canceled.

Archiving How it works

The Archiving behavior based on the Archiving target is as follows.