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Blob soft delete does not afford overwrite protection for blobs in the archive tier. If a blob in the archive tier is overwritten with a new blob in any tier, then the overwritten blob is permanently deleted. For premium storage accounts, soft-deleted snapshots do not count toward the per-blob limit of snapshots. You can restore soft-deleted blobs or directories in a hierarchical namespace by calling the Undelete Blob operation within the retention period.

The Undelete Blob operation restores a blob and any soft-deleted snapshots associated with it. Any snapshots that were deleted during the retention period are restored. In accounts that have a hierarchical namespace, the Undelete Blob operation can also be used to restore a soft-deleted directory and all its contents. If you rename a directory that contains soft deleted blobs, those soft deleted blobs become disconnected from the directory.

If you want to restore those blobs, you'll have to revert the name of the directory back to it's original name or create a separate directory that uses the original directory name. Otherwise, you'll receive an error when you attempt to restore those soft deleted blobs. Calling Undelete Blob on a blob that is not soft-deleted will restore any soft-deleted snapshots that are associated with the blob.

If the blob has no snapshots and is not soft-deleted, then calling Undelete Blob has no effect. To promote a soft-deleted snapshot to the base blob, first call Undelete Blob on the base blob to restore the blob and its snapshots. Next, copy the desired snapshot over the base blob. You can also copy the snapshot to a new blob. For more information on how to restore soft-deleted objects, see Manage and restore soft-deleted blobs.

If blob versioning and blob soft delete are both enabled for a storage account, then overwriting a blob automatically creates a new version.

The new version is not soft-deleted and is not removed when the soft-delete retention period expires. No soft-deleted snapshots are created. When you delete a blob, the current version of the blob becomes a previous version, and there is no longer a current version. No new version is created and no soft-deleted snapshots are created.

Enabling soft delete and versioning together protects blob versions from deletion. When soft delete is enabled, deleting a version creates a soft-deleted version. You can use the Undelete Blob operation to restore soft-deleted versions during the soft delete retention period. The Undelete Blob operation always restores all soft-deleted versions of the blob.

It is not possible to restore only a single soft-deleted version. After the soft-delete retention period has elapsed, any soft-deleted blob versions are permanently deleted. Calling the Undelete Blob operation on a deleted blob when versioning is enabled restores any soft-deleted versions or snapshots, but does not restore the current version.

To restore the current version, promote a previous version by copying it to the current version. Microsoft recommends enabling both versioning and blob soft delete for your storage accounts for optimal data protection. For more information about using blob versioning and soft delete together, see Blob versioning and soft delete.

The following table describes the expected behavior for delete and write operations when blob soft delete is enabled, either with or without blob versioning. This table shows how this feature is supported in your account and the impact on support when you enable certain capabilities. These issues apply to all accounts that have the hierarchical namespace feature enabled. All soft deleted data is billed at the same rate as active data.

You will not be charged for data that is permanently deleted after the retention period elapses. When you enable soft delete, Microsoft recommends using a short retention period to better understand how the feature will affect your bill. The minimum recommended retention period is seven days. Enabling soft delete for frequently overwritten data may result in increased storage capacity charges and increased latency when listing blobs.

You can mitigate this additional cost and latency by storing the frequently overwritten data in a separate storage account where soft delete is disabled.

You are not billed for transactions related to the automatic generation of snapshots or versions when a blob is overwritten or deleted. You are billed for calls to the Undelete Blob operation at the transaction rate for write operations. For more information on pricing for Blob Storage, see the Blob Storage pricing page. Blob soft delete is available for both premium and standard unmanaged disks, which are page blobs under the covers. Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services.

Privacy policy. Blob soft delete protects an individual blob and its versions, snapshots, and metadata from accidental deletes or overwrites by maintaining the deleted data in the system for a specified period of time. During the retention period, you can restore the blob to its state at deletion. After the retention period has expired, the blob is permanently deleted. For more information about blob soft delete, see Soft delete for blobs. Blob soft delete is part of a comprehensive data protection strategy for blob data.

To learn more about Microsoft's recommendations for data protection, see Data protection overview. When blobs are soft-deleted, they are invisible in the Azure portal by default.

To view soft-deleted blobs, navigate to the Overview page for the container and toggle the Show deleted blobs setting. Soft-deleted blobs are displayed with a status of Deleted. Next, select the deleted blob from the list of blobs to display its properties. Under the Overview tab, notice that the blob's status is set to Deleted. The portal also displays the number of days until the blob is permanently deleted.

Deleting a blob also deletes any snapshots associated with the blob. If a soft-deleted blob has snapshots, the deleted snapshots can also be displayed in the portal. Display the soft-deleted blob's properties, then navigate to the Snapshots tab, and toggle Show deleted snapshots.

To restore a soft-deleted blob in the Azure portal when blob versioning is not enabled, first display the blob's properties, then select the Undelete button on the Overview tab. Restoring a blob also restores any snapshots that were deleted during the soft-delete retention period. To promote a soft-deleted snapshot to the base blob, first make sure that the blob's soft-deleted snapshots have been restored.

Select the Undelete button to restore the blob's soft-deleted snapshots, even if the base blob itself has not been soft-deleted. Next, select the snapshot to promote and use the Promote snapshot button to overwrite the base blob with the contents of the snapshot. To restore a soft-deleted blob in the Azure portal when versioning is enabled, select the soft-deleted blob to display its properties, then select the Versions tab.

Select the version that you want to promote to be the current version, then select Make current version. To restore deleted versions or snapshots when versioning is enabled, display the blob's properties, then select the Undelete button on the Overview tab.

When versioning is enabled, selecting the Undelete button on a deleted blob restores any soft-deleted versions or snapshots, but does not restore the base blob. To restore the base blob, you must promote a previous version. You can use the Azure Storage client libraries to restore a soft-deleted blob or snapshot. The following examples show how to use the. NET client library. To restore deleted blobs when versioning is not enabled, call the Undelete Blob operation on those blobs.

When making a request against the emulated storage service, specify the emulator hostname and Blob service port as This operation also supports the use of conditional headers to delete the blob only if a specified condition is met.

For information about status codes, see Status and Error Codes. The response for this operation includes the following headers. The response may also include additional standard HTTP headers. This operation can be performed by the account owner or by anyone using a Shared Access Signature that has permission to delete the blob. If the blob has an active lease, the client must specify a valid lease ID on the request in order to delete it. If a blob has a large number of snapshots, it's possible that the Delete Blob operation will time out.

If this happens, the client should retry the request. For version and later, the client may call Delete Blob to delete uncommitted blobs. An uncommitted blob is a blob that was created with calls to the Put Block operation but never committed using the Put Block List operation. For earlier versions, the client must commit the blob first before deleting it.

When a blob is successfully deleted, it is immediately removed from the storage account's index and is no longer accessible to clients. The blob's data is later removed from the service during garbage collection.

When a blob is successfully deleted, it is softly deleted and is no longer accessible to clients. The Blob service retains the blob or snapshot for the number of days specified for the DeleteRetentionPolicy property of the Blob service. Soft deleted blob or snapshot can be restored using Undelete Blob. For any other operation on soft deleted blob or snapshot, Blob Service returns error ResourceNotFound.

In order to leverage the feature, the storage account needs to have permanent delete enabled. For more for information, see Set Blob Service Properties. Blob service would return Conflict if the query parameter presents with any of the following:. Permanent delete also includes a new SAS permission y grant permission to permanently delete a blob snapshot or blob version.

For more information, see Create a service SAS.