How many versions of this object??

[squebel]

Hello,
We are finally starting to test out object lock on our StorageGrid 11.9 platform with Veeam in Governance mode. It seems to work really well out of the box but digging into some of the data consumption I have found some stuff that is really weird around versioning of objects. When I run the "list-object-versions" command with the aws s3ap cli "aws s3api --no-verify-ssl --endpoint https://endpointip:10443 list-object-versions --bucket bucket2 --key Veeam/Backup/backups/Clients/fullpathtoobject" I get back a MASSIVE response from the system showing what appears to be hundreds of versions of this one object. That just doesn't make sense to me. If I put a single object out there by myself and run the same command on that object, I do not get any versions.

Why I'm asking is I'm seeing data being kept when I don't think it should be. Data just continues to grow because versions of the object are not being deleted and can't be deleted because of the object lock and lifecycle of versioned objects.

[veremin]

In general, using immutability increases the number of objects stored in the object storage, as we try to protect the state of the entire backup chain at a given moment of time and apply immutability to all blocks corresponding to this state. The specified retention period is effectively extended by the immutability period and the generation period. You can read more about this in our User Guide.

The additional objects you see might be related to this behavior.

Thanks!

[sfirmes]

I assume your "fullpathtobject" is pointing to a single object? If so, you should open a Veeam support case since we don't expect to see multiple versions for a single object due to our use of unique object keys. If you open a support case, please post the case# here so that we can track it internally.

Thanks

[squebel]

That's right, Steve. The full path is "Veeam/Backup/backups/Clients/{6e1f9024-2d6f-4cd9-ab38-28ecf2c50930}/b42d482d-b030-487d-ae03-ae542e5329c6/CloudStg/Data/{8406717e-4bdb-446b-bf7b-fc346036fd93}/{08ae2567-f184-4286-8c0a-834f5f0c0d05}/10274_e3fb0e648f78c1069344a554b96584c8_00000000000000000000000000000000"

And this is after just the initial Full backup of a single vm that the aws s3api cli call gives me back that huge list of versions.

I will open a case. Thank you.