public void CloudBlobSnapshot() { CloudBlobContainer container = GetRandomContainerReference(); try { container.Create(); // Upload some data to the blob. var blobName = GetRandomBlobName(); MemoryStream originalData = new MemoryStream(GetRandomBuffer(1024)); CloudAppendBlob appendBlob = container.GetAppendBlobReference(blobName); appendBlob.CreateOrReplace(); appendBlob.AppendBlock(originalData, null); CloudBlob blob = container.GetBlobReference(blobName); blob.FetchAttributes(); Assert.IsFalse(blob.IsSnapshot); Assert.IsNull(blob.SnapshotTime, "Root blob has SnapshotTime set"); Assert.IsFalse(blob.SnapshotQualifiedUri.Query.Contains("snapshot")); Assert.AreEqual(blob.Uri, blob.SnapshotQualifiedUri); CloudBlob snapshot1 = blob.Snapshot(); Assert.AreEqual(blob.Properties.ETag, snapshot1.Properties.ETag); Assert.AreEqual(blob.Properties.LastModified, snapshot1.Properties.LastModified); Assert.IsTrue(snapshot1.IsSnapshot); Assert.IsNotNull(snapshot1.SnapshotTime, "Snapshot does not have SnapshotTime set"); Assert.AreEqual(blob.Uri, snapshot1.Uri); Assert.AreNotEqual(blob.SnapshotQualifiedUri, snapshot1.SnapshotQualifiedUri); Assert.AreNotEqual(snapshot1.Uri, snapshot1.SnapshotQualifiedUri); Assert.IsTrue(snapshot1.SnapshotQualifiedUri.Query.Contains("snapshot")); CloudBlob snapshot2 = blob.Snapshot(); Assert.IsTrue(snapshot2.SnapshotTime.Value > snapshot1.SnapshotTime.Value); snapshot1.FetchAttributes(); snapshot2.FetchAttributes(); blob.FetchAttributes(); AssertAreEqual(snapshot1.Properties, blob.Properties, false); CloudBlob snapshot1Clone = new CloudBlob(new Uri(blob.Uri + "?snapshot=" + snapshot1.SnapshotTime.Value.ToString("O")), blob.ServiceClient.Credentials); Assert.IsNotNull(snapshot1Clone.SnapshotTime, "Snapshot clone does not have SnapshotTime set"); Assert.AreEqual(snapshot1.SnapshotTime.Value, snapshot1Clone.SnapshotTime.Value); snapshot1Clone.FetchAttributes(); AssertAreEqual(snapshot1.Properties, snapshot1Clone.Properties, false); // The query parser should not be case sensitive in detecting a snapshot in the query string CloudBlob snapshotParseVerifier = new CloudBlob(new Uri(blob.Uri + "?sNapshOt=" + snapshot1.SnapshotTime.Value.ToString("O")), blob.ServiceClient.Credentials); Assert.IsNotNull(snapshotParseVerifier.SnapshotTime, "Snapshot parse verifier did not successfully detect the snapshot time"); Assert.AreEqual(snapshot1.SnapshotTime.Value, snapshotParseVerifier.SnapshotTime.Value); CloudBlob snapshotCopy = container.GetBlobReference("blob2"); snapshotCopy.StartCopy(TestHelper.Defiddler(snapshot1.Uri)); WaitForCopy(snapshotCopy); Assert.AreEqual(CopyStatus.Success, snapshotCopy.CopyState.Status); using (Stream snapshotStream = snapshot1.OpenRead()) { snapshotStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.End); TestHelper.AssertStreamsAreEqual(originalData, snapshotStream); } //overwriting the blob and creating the 5th snapshot appendBlob.CreateOrReplace(); blob.FetchAttributes(); using (Stream snapshotStream = snapshot1.OpenRead()) { snapshotStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.End); TestHelper.AssertStreamsAreEqual(originalData, snapshotStream); } List <IListBlobItem> blobs = container.ListBlobs(null, true, BlobListingDetails.All, null, null).ToList(); Assert.AreEqual(4, blobs.Count); AssertAreEqual(snapshotCopy, (CloudBlob)blobs[0]); AssertAreEqual(snapshot1, (CloudBlob)blobs[1]); AssertAreEqual(snapshot2, (CloudBlob)blobs[2]); AssertAreEqual(blob, (CloudBlob)blobs[3]); } finally { container.DeleteIfExists(); } }