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title: Enable soft delete for blobs
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title: Enable and manage soft delete for blobs
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titleSuffix: Azure Storage
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description: Enable soft delete for blob objects to more easily recover your data when it is erroneously modified or deleted.
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services: storage
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author: tamram
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ms.service: storage
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ms.topic: conceptual
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ms.date: 04/02/2020
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ms.date: 05/11/2020
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ms.author: tamram
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ms.subservice: blobs
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# Enable soft delete for blobs
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# Enable and manage soft delete for blobs
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The following steps show how to get started with soft delete.
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Soft delete protects blob data from being accidentally or erroneously modified or deleted. When soft delete is enabled for a storage account, blobs, blob versions (preview), and snapshots in that storage account may be recovered after they are deleted, within a retention period that you specify.
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If there is a possibility that your data may accidentally be modified or deleted by an application or another storage account user, Microsoft recommends turning on soft delete.
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This article shows how to get started with soft delete.
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## Enable soft delete
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# [Portal](#tab/azure-portal)
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$MatchingAccounts = Get-AzStorageAccount | where-object{$_.StorageAccountName -match "<matching-regex>"}
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$MatchingAccounts | Enable-AzStorageDeleteRetentionPolicy -RetentionDays 7
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You can verify that soft delete was turned on by using the following command:
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```powershell

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