{"id":22224,"date":"2024-09-23T15:40:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T13:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/contabo.com\/blog\/kb\/103000282913-does-contabo-object-storage-support-lifecycle-policies\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T18:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T16:05:23","slug":"103000282913-does-contabo-object-storage-support-lifecycle-policies","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/contabo.com\/blog\/kb\/103000282913-does-contabo-object-storage-support-lifecycle-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Contabo Object Storage Support Lifecycle Policies?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does Contabo Object Storage support lifecycle policies?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Contabo’s S3 Object Storage supports S3 lifecycle policies that allow you to automatically delete objects after a certain amount of time. This can be useful for pruning old backups or log files.<\/p>\n


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Be careful when setting up lifecycle policies. They apply to all objects in a bucket and will irreversibly delete them if configured to do so.<\/strong><\/p>\n


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How can I setup lifecycle polices with Contabo’s Object Storage?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Lifecycle policies can be set through aws cli<\/a><\/u>. Make sure to have it set up with your account before you begin. <\/p>\n


<\/p>\n

First, you’ll need to define the policy as a json file. Here is an example that deletes all files within a bucket after one year:<\/p>\n


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{
\"Rules\": [
{
\"ID\": \"DeleteAll365\",
\"Status\": \"Enabled\",
\"Prefix\": \"\",
\"Expiration\": {
\"Days\": 365
}
}
]
}<\/pre>\n
Customize this snippet and save it as lifecycle-policy.json on your local machine. Then apply it to a bucket with aws cli like this:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
aws --profile eu2 --region default --endpoint-url https:\/\/eu2.contabostorage.com s3api put-bucket-lifecycle-configuration --bucket test --lifecycle-configuration file:\/\/lifecycle-policy.json<\/pre>\n
Replace the profile and endpoint with your object storage and replace test with the actual bucket name. 
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