---
title: "Turn on Object Versioning"
description: "Turn Object Versioning on or off for a bucket, and see, download, or delete an object's earlier versions."
content_type: "how-to"
product: "object-storage"
platform: "MyAccount"
url: "/myaccount/object-storage/how-to/turn-on-object-versioning/"
topic: ["protect-your-data"]
relationships: {"requires":["/myaccount/object-storage/how-to/create-a-bucket/"]}
---

# Turn on Object Versioning

Object Versioning keeps every version of every object in a bucket, so the earlier copy survives an
overwrite or a delete. Turn it on for a bucket you would need to recover from: undoing a bad upload,
getting back a file someone deleted by mistake, or stepping back through a file's history to see
what it looked like before a given change.

## Turn Object Versioning on

Open the bucket's **Actions** menu, select **Object Versioning**, and toggle it on. From then
on, uploading to an existing object's name creates a new version instead of replacing it. The
bucket's **Bucket Details** tab shows its new Object Versioning status.

## See, download, or delete a version

On the **Objects** tab, click **View All Versions** to list every version of every object with
its version ID, size, and timestamp. From a version's own menu, download it, generate a
presigned URL for it, or delete that one version, leaving the others intact.

## Turn Object Versioning off

Select **Object Versioning** again and toggle it off. This suspends versioning: every version you
already have stays exactly where it is, and new uploads stop creating new versions. Once versioning
has been on, **Suspended** is its off position. You cannot suspend versioning while [Object
Lock](/myaccount/object-storage/concepts/object-lock/) is on, or while the bucket has an active
replication rule.

Since storage is billed by the total bytes you keep, every version you hold adds to that; a
[lifecycle rule](/myaccount/object-storage/how-to/set-a-lifecycle-rule/) can expire old versions
automatically if that starts to matter.

Replication needs versioning on both buckets; see
[Replicate a bucket to another region](/myaccount/object-storage/how-to/replicate-a-bucket-to-another-region/).