Object Versioning is the GCP's way of automatic archival. Once object versioning is enabled for a bucket, every version of the object (resulting from multiple writes) will be given an identification tag, which will be called generation number and all of the versions will be archived automatically.
Use case – Object Versioning
Object versioning in the Cloud Storage bucket
This is an API and command-line exclusive (at the time of writing), so console will not provide any hints. Versioning can be set using gsutil with the following steps:
- Apply the gsutil versioning set on command, with the appropriate values. This will enable object versioning for all objects in the bucket. The Set off argument will turn it off...
