The eventBasedHold is one type of hold, which are metadata flags that you place on individual objects. While an object has a hold placed on it, the object cannot be deleted or replaced. You can, however, edit the metadata of the object, as shown in the documentation.
Cloud Storage offers the following types of holds:
- Event-based holds
- Temporary holds
An object can have one type of hold, both types, or neither hold placed on it. When an object is stored in a bucket without a retention policy, both hold types behave exactly the same. When an object is stored in a bucket with a retention policy, the hold types have different effects on the object when the hold is released:
- An event-based hold resets the object's time in the bucket for the purposes of the retention period.
- A temporary hold does not affect the object's time in the bucket for the purposes of the retention period.
You can manage individual object holds by:
In addition to placing holds on individual objects, you can enable the default event-based property on your bucket. When you do this, each new object that subsequently gets added to the bucket automatically has an event-based hold placed on it.
The following tasks show you how to set and view the default event-based hold property on a bucket:
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