Restore a Storage Account

Question

Hi there,
Today we were doing some tidying up in our ressource groups and deleted a ressource group containing a storage account that we belived was nolonger needed. Turns out however that the old customer it belonged to never changed to their own blob storage and were still running on ours.
Can we in any shape or form restore the deleted storage account so we can retrieve the content?

Answer 1

@Michael Pedersen It's not possible to restore a deleted storage account or retrieve any of the content that it contained before deletion.

If you have enabled soft delete you may restore the blob files if they were deleted but configured Soft Delete option. If it's configured, you can see when you check "Show deleted blobs" there will be an option to undelete in its properties section. Below documentation explains the same in detail with the screen shots: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blob-soft-delete?tabs=azure-portal#get-started

Note: If it is production data that got deleted, Recommended to reach out to Azure Support immediately. They may be able to recover the data if not too much time has elapsed.

The Undelete Blob operation restores the contents and metadata of a soft deleted blob and any associated soft deleted snapshots.: Undelete Blob

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Deleting a Azure Storage account is an irreversible action. But still there is an option to avoid accidental deletion of storage accounts by settings locks to your account.

For more details, refer “Lock resources to prevent unexpected changes”.

Hope this helps!

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Answer 2

Thanks for your great a detailed answer, we have reached out to Azure Support, and they have confirmed that they can restore the Storage Account in question.