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By default, IBM Spectrum Protect creates a bucket in the ECS user’s namespace when the Spectrum Protect Storage Pool is created.
Buckets can be pre-created, which provides more control over the specification of the ECS bucket.
The Access During Outage setting controls whether a bucket will be accessible during an outage of an ECS VDC.
If required, specify a Bucket Retention Period that will apply to all objects written to this bucket by IBM Spectrum Protect. For additional information about creating ECS buckets, see the ECS Management Guide.
Note: Setting bucket retention periods can cause conflicts with Spectrum Protect expirations because Spectrum Protect has no knowledge of this setting.