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.