After initiating a multipart upload, the user who initiated it can upload parts at any time until the multipart upload is completed or aborted. Completing a multipart upload creates a multipart object from the uploaded parts. Aborting a multipart upload causes the uploaded parts to be deleted. After a multipart upload is aborted, no more parts can be uploaded for it, and it cannot be completed.
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Note: When a multipart upload is aborted, its parts may not be deleted immediately. However, an aborted multipart upload cannot be completed even if its parts have not yet been deleted. |
If a multipart upload is never completed or aborted, the disjointed parts can remain in HCP indefinitely. Even though the multipart upload is incomplete, these parts count toward the storage used by the namespace to which they were uploaded.
To prevent parts of multipart uploads from remaining in HCP indefinitely, you can set the amount of time for which a multipart upload can remain incomplete before the multipart upload is automatically aborted. This time is counted from the time the multipart upload was initiated.
Each namespace has its own automatic abort time for multipart uploads. By default, the automatic abort time for new namespaces is 30 days. A time of zero days tells HCP never to abort multipart uploads in the namespace automatically.
You can change the automatic abort time for a namespace at any time. When you change the time, the new time applies to all subsequent multipart uploads as well as to multipart uploads that are already in progress.
For example, if a user initiates a multipart upload on September 9th while the automatic abort time is set to 30 days, that multipart upload will be automatically aborted on October 9th. If, before October 9th, you change the automatic abort time to 35 days, the date on which the multipart upload will be automatically aborted changes to October 14th. If you change the automatic abort time to an amount of time that has already elapsed since the multipart upload was initiated, the multipart upload is immediately aborted.
For information about changing the automatic abort time for a namespace, see Changing the automatic abort time for multipart uploads.
For more information about multipart uploads, see
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