Question

Your company stores critical documents in a blob container within a general-purpose v2 storage account. An application accidentally overwrote a blob named contract.docx with an incorrect version an hour ago. Blob soft delete is enabled with a 14-day retention period, but blob versioning is NOT enabled on the account. You need to recover the original contents of contract.docx. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Undelete the soft-deleted snapshot that was automatically retained when the blob was overwritten, then promote it to the base blob.

Answer

Restore the previous version of the blob from the Versions tab in the Azure portal.

Answer

You cannot recover the original data because soft delete does not protect against overwrites when versioning is disabled.

Answer

Enable point-in-time restore and restore the container to a timestamp before the overwrite occurred.