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File versioning and recovery

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LIBSAFE Go supports file-level versioning and deleted items recovery.

If a container is using a storage class that supports versioning, every time a file is changed all previous versions are also kept. If a file is deleted, it is also possible to undelete it.

Listing previous versions of a file

To list previously existing versions of a file, right-click over it, select Properties and go to the Versions tab:

If you want to restore a previous version, select Restore.

The version restoring process usually takes a few minutes to complete. Restored files are moved to the same folder in which the current file is, with the following format: (original file name.extension)_(version key)_(timestamp).

Deleting existing file versions

Versioned files use storage space. If you want to delete the previous versions of a file, right-click over it, select Properties and go to the Versions tab and select the Delete icon:

Recovering deleted files

To recover deleted files in a container, go to the Storage tab and scroll down to the Deleted Items section. A list of the deleted files will be shown:

To restore a file, select Restore.

Deleting deleted files

If you want to delete all previously deleted files from a container, go to the Storage tab and scroll down to the Deleted Items section. Select the Delete icon:

Once deleted, the versions or the deleted files, it is impossible to recover them. Files are lost forever.

Changing the storage class or type for a file removes all its previous versions, making it impossible to recover previous ones.