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Amazon s3 versioning: Keep version of overwritten files to preserve older data

Using this feature you can retrieve older version of overwritten file(s) in same structure [1] as it is stored in your Bucket . Version folder is stored in two default System Buckets named as us.bucketexplorer.SHA1 ( Canonical Id [3] ) and eu.bucketexplorer.SHA1 (Canonical Id). This feature is cost effective because empty buckets do not  cost money.

If you delete versions from the system Buckets, they will be deleted permanently from S3 server and you don't need to use another third party tool for this.

  1. Versioning of Overwritten Amazon S3 files

    (Note : This is possible only when amazon versioning is 'Disable', then bucket explorer handle its own versioning. )

    Whenever you upload , copy or move existing files on S3 then the older versions of those files are moved automatically in versions folder of relevant system bucket [2] . Data goes in the versions only when a file with same name and with different content is uploaded.

    Versioning feature preserves versions of Amazon S3 files when you overwrite files of same name. You can download , copy, move and delete data from the versions folder using Bucket Explorer.

  1. ˆ Same structure: In version folder of system bucket, Bucket Explorer creates a folder named as Bucket name from where you deleted object, in this folder there will be the same folder structure as in Bucket and object name in folders gets appended with date and time.
  2. ˆ Relevant system bucket: There are two system buckets in Bucket Explorer for US and Europe, version of US buckets get stored in us.bucketexplorer.SHA1 (Canonical Id) and version of Europe buckets get stored in eu.bucketexplorer.SHA1 (Canonical Id).
  3. ˆ Canonical Id: The canonical user id is specific to S3 and is a 64 character long hex string.

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