How to remove azure file share old data from the azure storage account?

Question

I have 3 months of old data which is stored on azure storage account ? Now i want remove the data if it >= 30days. some thing like retention period

Answer 1

@Bala Krishna
Azure Files does not currently have this functionality built-in. Please comment and upvote this existing feedback item. You could create automation from the client side which deletes the files from the directory or create a script using Azure functions or PowerShell. This thread has a PowerShell script which might be helpful.

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Answer 2

@deherman-MSFT

The script is not checking inside the directory recursively . Script only checking the current or root directory . But i want to remove the data along with folder recursively if it's older than 30 days . Here am i added the script

# List files recursively and remove file older than 30 days

$Subscription="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"  
 $StorageAccountName="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"  
 $ResourceGroupName="xxxxxxx"  
 $fileshareName = "folder"  

  $StorageAccountAccessKey = Get-AzStorageAccountKey -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName -AccountName $StorageAccountName | Where-Object   
 {$_.KeyName -eq "key1"}  

  $ctx = New-AzStorageContext -StorageAccountName $StorageAccountName -StorageAccountKey $StorageAccountAccessKey.Value  

  $DirIndex = 0  
  $dirsToList = New-Object System.Collections.Generic.List[System.Object]  


 $shareroot = Get-AzStorageFile -ShareName $fileshareName -context $ctx   
 $dirsToList += $shareroot   

 Write-Host "DirIndex: "$DirIndex   
 Write-Host "dirsToList: "$dirsToList.Count   
 $dir = $dirsToList[$DirIndex]  
 $DirIndex ++     
 $fileListItems = $dir | Get-AzStorageFile -ShareName $fileshareName  
 $dirsListOut = $fileListItems | where {$_.GetType().Name -eq "AzureStorageFileDirectory"}  
 $files = $fileListItems | where {$_.GetType().Name -eq "AzureStorageFile"}  

 foreach($file in $files)  
 {  

     Write-Host "Current fileName: "$file.Name  
     # Fetch Attributes of each file and output  
     $task = $file.CloudFile.FetchAttributesAsync()  
     $task.Wait()  
     # remove file if it's older than 30 days.  
     if ($file.CloudFile.Properties.LastModified -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-30))  
     {  

        Write-Host "file :",$file.Name  "is older than 35 days so removing it ..!"   

        Remove-AzStorageFile -ShareName $fileshareName -Path $file.Name -Context $ctx  

     }  
 }