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How to Disable Archival Storage on a Standard Object Storage Subscription

Updated on 01 April, 2026

Disable archival storage on Vultr Object Storage and restore archived data back to standard tier.

Disabling Archival Storage removes the lifecycle policy and triggers a background job that moves all archived objects back to the Standard bucket. This process runs in the background and may take time depending on the volume of data.

Follow this guide to disable Archival Storage on a Standard Object Storage bucket using the Vultr Customer Portal or the Vultr API.

  • Vultr Customer Portal
  • Vultr API
  1. Navigate to Products and click Cloud Storage.
  2. Select Object Storage and click the target Standard subscription.
  3. Click Buckets.
  4. Click the wrench icon next to the target bucket.
  5. Under Options, toggle Archival Storage to disabled.
  6. Click Save Changes.

  1. Send a GET request to the List Object Storages endpoint to retrieve your Standard subscription ID.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/object-storage" \
  -X GET \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

    Note the id of your Standard subscription (tier_id: 2). Use this value as {object-storage-id} in the next step.

  2. Disable Archival Storage on the target bucket. Replace {object-storage-id} with your subscription ID and {bucket-name} with the name of the bucket.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/object-storage/{object-storage-id}/bucket/{bucket-name}/archival" \
    -X POST \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"archival": false}'

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