How To Retrieve Accidentally Deleted Azure Storage Blobs

Introduction

This article will help you learn how to retrieve accidentally deleted Azure Storage Blobs

Before reading this article, please go through some important articles mentioned below:

• Exploring Storage Explorer
• Exploring Azure Blob Storage Tiers
• Quick Start With Azure Storage
• A Detailed Overview Of Azure Storage Account Creation
• A Detailed Overview Of Blob Storage

Azure Storage

Azure Storage is one of the cloud computing PaaS (Platform as a Service) services the Microsoft Azure team provides. It provides cloud storage that is highly available, secure, durable, scalable, and redundant. It is massively scalable and elastic. It can store and process hundreds of terabytes of data, or you can store the small amounts of data required for a small business website.

Prerequisites

• Microsoft Azure Account.

This article demonstrates how to retrieve the deleted blobs.

Step 1

First, create a storage account with blobs.

Step 2

Open the Storage Account that contains the Blobs. Navigate to the Data Protection menu, then choose" Enable soft delete for blobs".

Set the retention policy is 7 days. The retention period can be extended up to 365 days.

Step 3

Now, select the blob and click on delete.

Click on the "OK" button

Step 4

Now, we need to retrieve the deleted blob. Under your Storage container, check the "Show deleted blobs" option.

Enable the "Show deleted blobs" option. Then, we can see all the removed blobs.

Now, right-click on the blob and click "undelete"

By doing this, the deleted blob file(s) will return to their "Active" state.

Summary

I hope you understand how to retrieve the deleted Azure Storage blobs back.