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Bucket Explorer :: Amazon S3 Versioning :: Bucket Explorer : How it works?

1. How can I get version of overwritten data in Bucket Explorer?
2. What is Delete marker? how it is different from version id?
3. How can I refresh my versioning listing?
4. Can I download the older versions of objects, if I can, then how can do that ?
5. I have set the versioning on my bucket but now I want to remove it so can you tell me how can I remove versioning from my bucket?
6. How can I check on my bucket that versioning is already enabled on that bucket or not?
7. How to delete the version object from bucket?
8. How can I get deleted versioning objects?
9. How can I restore any version object?
10. How can I enable MFA delete ?
11. If versioning is not enabled on my bucket & I have overwritten my object mistakenly. Now I have enabled versioning on it. Can I now recover my old document?

What is Delete marker? how it is different from version id?

Delete Marker- A Delete Marker is just a marker for the versioned object

Version Id- Every version of an object in your bucket can be uniquely identified by a key and an alphanumeric system-generated id called version id.
The Delete Marker is itself given a version id; however it has no data associated with it other than a Creation Date and Owner (whoever performed the DELETE).

  • It is not associated with object as version object
  • can not get retrived
  • only delete operation can perform on delete marker