Data Protection

• Data Protection Options
  
• Recovering deleted files and containers:
  • Create a storage account with any redundancy option
  • Ensure the data protection is selected for blobs and containers.
  • Create a container and upload some files.
    
  • Delete any file
    
  • Now enable show deleted blobs
    
    
  • Lets try to recover the file
    
    
  • We can recover the deleted container as well
• Recovering deleted storage account:
  • Ensure you have not created the storage with same name post delete
  • Ensure the same is true for resoruce group name as well.
  • Refer Here for official docs
  • Navigate to storage accounts and restore
    
    
    
    

Storage Explorer

• Azure has a software called as storage explorer to work with storage accounts and also is useful for developers to emulate storage accounts.
• Download the software Refer Here
• Open the storage account in explorer
  
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Powershell

• Lets play with powershell
• Launch Powershell as Admin in your system
• To work with commands we need some shell. Windows has two popular interfaces
  • dos prompt/command prompt
  • Powershell
• Powershell is inbuilt in all versions of windows.
• Windows Terminal is shell host. It can run various shells like
  • Powershell
  • Azure Cloud Shell
  • Git Bash
  • Cmd
• Windows Terminal works in Windows 10 +
• Azure Cloud Shell : This is a browser based shell for the users logged in to portal
• Windows Powershell has
  • cmdlets:
    • Is a command in the form of <verb>-<Noun>
  • functions
• To find a command let use Get-Command

Get-Command '*-Item'

• To know the usage of Specific cmd-let

Get-Help '<cmd-let>' -Online

• Execute the following command to update documentation

Update-Help

• Execute the following command to know the version of powershell

$PSVersionTable

* In powershell when we use the pipe the objects are transferred
* Find a command to start process and start process for notepad (C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe)
* Stop the Notepad process.