Edit a bucket

You can edit some bucket settings after the bucket has been created and after it has had objects written to it.

Before you begin

  • This operation requires the System Administrator or Namespace Administrator role in ECS.
  • A System Administrator can edit the settings for a bucket in any namespace.
  • A Namespace Administrator can edit the settings for a bucket in the namespace in which they are the administrator.

To edit a bucket, you must be assigned to the Namespace Administrator or System Administrator role.

About this task

You can edit the following bucket settings:

  • Quota
  • Bucket Owner
  • Bucket Tagging
  • Access During Outage
  • Bucket Retention
  • Reflection Expiration and Reflection Age (for CAS buckets)

You cannot change the following bucket settings:

  • Replication Group
  • Server-side Encryption
  • File System
  • CAS
  • Metadata Search

Procedure

  1. In the ECS Portal, select Manage > Buckets.
  2. On the Bucket Management page, in the Buckets table, select the Edit action for the bucket for which you want to change the settings.
  3. Edit the settings that you want to change.
    You can find out more information about the bucket settings in Bucket settings.
  4. Click Save.