public void CloudBlobSoftDeleteSnapshot() { CloudBlobContainer container = GetRandomContainerReference(); try { //Enables a delete retention policy on the blob with 1 day of default retention days container.ServiceClient.EnableSoftDelete(); container.Create(); // Upload some data to the blob. MemoryStream originalData = new MemoryStream(GetRandomBuffer(1024)); CloudAppendBlob appendBlob = container.GetAppendBlobReference(BlobName); appendBlob.UploadFromStream(originalData); CloudBlob blob = container.GetBlobReference(BlobName); //create snapshot via api CloudBlob snapshot = blob.Snapshot(); //create snapshot via write protection appendBlob.UploadFromStream(originalData); //we should have 2 snapshots 1 regular and 1 deleted: there is no way to get only the deleted snapshots but the below listing will get both snapshot types int blobCount = 0; int deletedSnapshotCount = 0; int snapShotCount = 0; foreach (IListBlobItem item in container.ListBlobs(null, true, BlobListingDetails.Snapshots | BlobListingDetails.Deleted)) { CloudAppendBlob blobItem = (CloudAppendBlob)item; Assert.AreEqual(blobItem.Name, BlobName); if (blobItem.IsSnapshot) { snapShotCount++; } if (blobItem.IsDeleted) { Assert.IsNotNull(blobItem.Properties.DeletedTime); Assert.AreEqual(blobItem.Properties.RemainingDaysBeforePermanentDelete, 0); deletedSnapshotCount++; } blobCount++; } Assert.AreEqual(blobCount, 3); Assert.AreEqual(deletedSnapshotCount, 1); Assert.AreEqual(snapShotCount, 2); blobCount = 0; foreach (IListBlobItem item in container.ListBlobs(null, true, BlobListingDetails.Snapshots)) { CloudAppendBlob blobItem = (CloudAppendBlob)item; Assert.AreEqual(blobItem.Name, BlobName); Assert.IsFalse(blobItem.IsDeleted); Assert.IsNull(blobItem.Properties.DeletedTime); Assert.IsNull(blobItem.Properties.RemainingDaysBeforePermanentDelete); blobCount++; } Assert.AreEqual(blobCount, 2); //Delete Blob and snapshots blob.Delete(DeleteSnapshotsOption.IncludeSnapshots); Assert.IsFalse(blob.Exists()); Assert.IsFalse(snapshot.Exists()); blobCount = 0; foreach (IListBlobItem item in container.ListBlobs(null, true, BlobListingDetails.All)) { CloudAppendBlob blobItem = (CloudAppendBlob)item; Assert.AreEqual(blobItem.Name, BlobName); Assert.IsTrue(blobItem.IsDeleted); Assert.IsNotNull(blobItem.Properties.DeletedTime); Assert.AreEqual(blobItem.Properties.RemainingDaysBeforePermanentDelete, 0); blobCount++; } Assert.AreEqual(blobCount, 3); blob.Undelete(); blob.FetchAttributes(); Assert.IsFalse(blob.IsDeleted); Assert.IsNull(blob.Properties.DeletedTime); Assert.IsNull(blob.Properties.RemainingDaysBeforePermanentDelete); blobCount = 0; foreach (IListBlobItem item in container.ListBlobs(null, true, BlobListingDetails.All)) { CloudAppendBlob blobItem = (CloudAppendBlob)item; Assert.AreEqual(blobItem.Name, BlobName); Assert.IsFalse(blobItem.IsDeleted); Assert.IsNull(blobItem.Properties.DeletedTime); Assert.IsNull(blobItem.Properties.RemainingDaysBeforePermanentDelete); blobCount++; } Assert.AreEqual(blobCount, 3); } finally { container.ServiceClient.DisableSoftDelete(); container.DeleteIfExists(); } }