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title: "Bucket Settings: Enabling in WSC"
slug: "bucket-settings-wsc"
description: "Learn how to enable and configure bucket settings with Wasabi Surveillance Cloud (WSC). "
updated: 2026-03-11T16:11:46Z
published: 2026-03-11T16:11:46Z
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Bucket Settings: Enabling in WSC

You can configure the following bucket settings from the WSC Configuration tab.

- Versioning—Enables users to store and retrieve a specific version of a replicated or modified file. Versioning preserves file modifications on the source by keeping the modified versions as a separate file on the bucket. When versioning is enabled, every version of your replicated files will be saved as a separate version. When versioning is disabled, Wasabi will overwrite the previous version of a file and replace it with the updated, modified version.
- Compliance mode—Prohibits the modification or deletion of files from the source. Configure the amount of time that objects in a bucket are retained.

## Enabling/Disabling Versioning

1. Under the selected source, click **Bucket Settings**.
2. Click the toggle to enable **Versioning**: ![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/enabled toggle.png)

![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/enable versioning and compliance.PNG)
3. Once enabled, notice that the setting description changes to describe disabling versioning, as shown below. Click the toggle to disable versioning.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/tooltip for versioning once enabled.PNG)

## Enabling Compliance Mode

> Compliance mode can only be disabled from the WSC storage account.

1. Under the selected source, click **Bucket Settings**.
2. Click the toggle to enable **Compliance Mode**: ![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/enabled toggle.png)
3. A message will notify you that compliance mode can only be disabled from the Wasabi Console (WSC storage account). Click **Yes**.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/compliance mode pop up once enabled(1).PNG)
4. You will now set the Retention Time. The retention time determines when objects in the bucket can be modified and/or deleted. Enter a number in the type field.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/bef0a1ea-7768-4d5a-b520-c4fe2f7fafad/Images/Documentation/set retention time.PNG)
5. Click the drop-down to select a unit.

You have now successfully enabled Compliance mode.