---
title: "Cold Storage - Shared Responsibility for archive and restoration services"
description: "Shared responsibilities between OVHcloud and the customer on Cold Storage for archive and restoration services"
url: https://docs.ovhcloud.com/es/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storage/cold-storage-responsibility-model
lang: es
lastUpdated: 2024-02-26
---
# Cold Storage - Shared Responsibility for archive and restoration services

## Objective

The RACI below details shared responsibilities between OVHcloud and the customer on Cold Storage for archive and restoration services delivered.

| Roles                                                        |
| ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| R : Is in charge of carrying out the process                 |
| A : Accountable for the successful completion of the process |
| C : Is consulted during the process                          |
| I : Is informed of the results of the process                |

### 1. Before subscription

#### 1.1. Specify service as needed

| **Activity**                                                                   | **Customer** | **OVHcloud** |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------ | ------------ |
| Learn about capabilities and limitations related to the service                | RA           | C            |
| Provide personal data needed for service subscription                          | RA           | I            |
| Host the service at the following locations : Tours, Bordeaux, Croix, Grenoble |              | RA           |

### 2. Service availability

#### 2.1. Install the service

| **Activity**                                                                            | **Customer** | **OVHcloud** |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ------------ |
| Produce, route, deliver and maintain physical and virtual Instances for service hosting | I            | RA           |
| Create Object Storage credentials for an OpenStack user                                 | RA           |              |

#### 2.2. Reversibility model

| **Activity**                                    | **Customer** | **OVHcloud** |
| ----------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ------------ |
| Use Object Storage API to import data in bucket | RA           |              |

### 3. Service usage

#### 3.1. Operations

##### **3.1.1. Daily operations**

| **Activity**                                                                                                             | **Customer** | **OVHcloud** |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------ | ------------ |
| Provide access to the service by providing first ID credentials                                                          | I            | RA           |
| Manage Containers and objects' security created at server entry with SSE-C feature following keys delivery by the client | R            | A            |
| Administrate service storage                                                                                             |              | RA           |
| Administrate data                                                                                                        | RA           |              |
| Activate data archive command and manage backups following needs                                                         | RA           |              |

##### **3.1.2. Access management**

| **Activity**                                                                                                  | **Customer** | **OVHcloud** |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ------------ |
| Manage access rights to the OVHcloud Control Panel                                                            | RA           | I            |
| Manage physical and logical access to infrastructures for OVHcloud teams                                      |              | RA           |
| Manage Object Storage security policy of containers and object created before activating data archive command | RA           |              |

##### **3.1.3. Monitoring**

| **Activity**                                                                                   | **Customer** | **OVHcloud** |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ------------ |
| Manage and monitor physical and virtual servers in support of archive and restoration services |              | RA           |
| Retain logs of management infrastructure services                                              |              | RA           |
| Retain logs using the dedicated feature (activating cold storage on a stream)                  |              | RA           |
| Create, modify, control, restore, delete archives and backups                                  | RI           | A            |
| Maintain storage devices used for the service                                                  |              | RA           |

##### **3.1.4. Storage**

| **Activity**                                                                                                                             | **Customer** | **OVHcloud** |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ------------ |
| Manage data encryption before importing in the Object Storage allocated by using SSE-C feature and following keys delivery by the client | AI           | R            |
| Define a retention policy for data according to legal requirements                                                                       | RA           |              |

##### **3.1.5. Management**

| **Activity**                                                          | **Customer** | **OVHcloud** |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ------------ |
| Provide inventory of containers and objects used                      | I            | RA           |
| Manage the security of management infrastructure (API, control plane) |              | RA           |
| Manage physical security of equipments and hosted infrastructures     |              | RA           |

##### **3.1.6. Business continuity**

| **Activity**                                                                | **Customer** | **OVHcloud** |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ------------ |
| Perform restoration tests for archives                                      | RA           | I            |
| Maintain a business continuity and disaster recovery plan for the hosted IS | RA           |              |
| Manage automatic management systems for the infrastructure provided         |              | RA           |

#### 3.2. Event management

##### **3.2.1. Incidents**

| **Activity**                                            | **Customer** | **OVHcloud** |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ------------ |
| Process incidents on the service (tickets and contacts) | AI           | RA           |

### 4. Reversibility

#### 4.1. Reversibility Model

| **Activity**                    | **Customer** | **OVHcloud** |
| ------------------------------- | ------------ | ------------ |
| Plan reversibility operations   | RA           |              |
| Choose fallback infrastructures | RA           | CI           |
| Choose data format to export    | RA           |              |

#### 4.2. Data recovery

| **Activity**                                   | **Customer** | **OVHcloud** |
| ---------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ------------ |
| Manage reversibility operations                | RA           |              |
| Migrate/transfer data using Object Storage API | RA           |              |

### 5. End of service

#### 5.1. Data destruction

| **Activity**                                                                   | **Customer** | **OVHcloud** |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------ | ------------ |
| Destroy data from the Object Storage Containers Service via Object Storage API | RA           |              |
| Release allocated resources following service termination                      |              | RA           |

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