Delete old snapshots on Azure Files using PowerShell

Question

Looks like there's still no automatic system to remove old snapshots.

I've been trying to use the method published in azure-fileshare-snapshot-powershell-deletion

but that doesn't quite work for me.

My code is simple:

#set the contect using the connection string 
$Context = New-AzStorageContext -ConnectionString "xyz"

# Generate Snapshot List
$SnapshotList = Get-AzStorageShare -Context $context | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq $ShareName -and $_.IsSnapshot -eq $true -and $_.SnapshotTime -lt ([datetime]::UtcNow.AddDays(-4))}

# Delete Snapshots older than 4 days
foreach ($Snapshot in $SnapshotList)
    {
       Remove-AzStorageShare -Share $Snapshot -Verbose -Force
    }

However, I'm getting

Remove-AzStorageShare : Cannot bind parameter 'Share'. Cannot convert the "Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.Common.Storage.ResourceModel.AzureS
torageFileShare" value of type "Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.Common.Storage.ResourceModel.AzureStorageFileShare" to type "Microsoft.Azure.S
torage.File.CloudFileShare".
At line:3 char:37
+        Remove-AzStorageShare -Share $Snapshot -Verbose -Force

Is there any way to grab snapshots in the type of CloudFileShare?

Thanks!

Warmly,
Michał

Answer 1

@Michał Pawlicki
Thanks for your patience while we looked into this issue. There is a change on File cmdlets from Az 4.1.0. The change is: the File Share cmdlets output changes from “CloudFileShare” to “AzureStorageFileShare”, the original output will become a child property of the new output. To resolve this you can make a simple change in your foreach loop:

 foreach ($Snapshot in $SnapshotList)  
     {  
        Remove-AzStorageShare -Share $Snapshot.CloudFileShare -Verbose -Force  
     }  

Hope this helps! Let us know if you have any further questions.

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