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Cristian Blanco
Cristian Blanco

Reputation: 59

How to prevent the remove of a certain folder in a Google Cloud Storage Bucket?

I'm working in the deploy of some files to a Bucket in Google Cloud via Gitlab CI. The command that i'm using to remove the objects is gsutil -m rm gs://pr.homefront.com

That command removes everything from the bucket, but i would like to change it to still removing everything except a folder named "ibw" inside of that bucket every single time the command runs.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1463

Answers (1)

Jan Hernandez
Jan Hernandez

Reputation: 4640

You can add temporary holds to your objects within a folder, this holds prevent the manipulation or deletion over this objects

You can apply the holds via the following gsutil command:

gsutil -m  retention temp set  gs://bucketname/ibw/*******

* each asterisk is a folder level

you can set the holds before rm command and unset these after the rm command. The objects cannot be modified or removed until the hold is removed

UPDATE:

It is possible to add holds to empty folders

  1. I created an empty folder via Cloud console
  2. I run the following commands to avoid remove the empty folder
#this block the empty folder, if this is an folder with files all files will be blocked
gsutil -m  retention temp set  gs://bucketname/ibw/*******

#this operation can't remove objects,and empty folders with holds
gsutil -m rm gs://bucketname

#remove the hold of the empty folder, if this is an folder with files all files will be released
gsutil -m  retention temp release  gs://bucketname/ibw/*******

Upvotes: 2

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