Example ILM rules and policies

You can use the following examples as starting points for defining your own ILM rules and policy.

  1. Example 1: ILM rules and policy for object storage
    You can use the following example rules and policy as a starting point when defining an ILM policy to meet your object protection and retention requirements.
  2. Example 2: ILM rules and policy for EC object size filtering
    You can use the following example rules and policy as starting points to define an ILM policy that filters by object size to meet recommended EC requirements.
  3. Example 3: ILM rules and policy for better protection for image files
    You can use the following example rules and policy to ensure that images larger than 200 KB are erasure coded and that three copies are made of smaller images.
  4. Example 4: ILM rules and policy for S3 versioned objects
    If you have an S3 bucket with versioning enabled, you can manage the noncurrent object versions by including rules in your ILM policy that use Noncurrent time as the Reference Time.
  5. Example 5: ILM rules and policy for Strict ingest behavior
    You can use a location filter and the Strict ingest behavior in a rule to prevent objects from being saved at a particular data center location.
  6. Example 6: Changing an ILM policy
    You might need to create and activate a new ILM policy if your data protection needs change or you add new sites.
Parent topic: Managing objects through information lifecycle management
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