Delete Fileshare data based on data if fileshare capacity is more than 10TB

Question

How to Delete Fileshare data based on data if fileshare capacity is more than 10TB and script is stucking while running

Answer 1

Hello Sreenivasulu !

Thank you for posting on Microsoft Learn Q&A.

I think the correct tag Azure Files and you want to auto purge old files whenever the used capacity of a share exceeds 10 TiB?

What Azure supports (and doesn’t)

• lifecycle management (rule-based delete by age) exists for Blob storage, not for Azure Files. For Files you need your own job/runbook. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/lifecycle-management-overview
• you can measure usage per File share and alert on it via Azure Monitor metrics like FileCapacity, FileShareCapacityQuota... https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-files-monitoring-reference

You need to set an Azure Monitor metric alert on the share FileCapacity that triggers a runbook or a function and in that job you recheck usage, compute how many bytes to free, then breadth-first list the share.

You can filter files older than x days and sort oldest first then write their paths to a text file and delete them in parallel with AzCopy until usage drops below 10 TB.