Is it possible to read actual applied immutable policy on a blob - remaining Time-based retention in days

Question

I have applied a Time-based retention e.g. 5 days. Is it possible to read on each blob / their metadata, when this policy is expiring...

Same way as we can read on soft deleted blobs RemainingRetentionDays??

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65885891/is-it-possible-to-read-actual-applied-immutable-policy-on-a-blob-remaining-tim

Answer 1

For Time-based immutable policy, there is no direct way to know when this policy is expiring. You need to calculate it by yourself. For example, if the Time-based retention is 5-days, then you upload a blob in January 1. Then in January 2, it has 4-days to be expired.

For soft deleted blobs, yes, you can read the RemainingRetentionDays by using code or using UI.

Here is an example to read this value via UI, you should install Azure Storage Explorer. Then you can see the RemainingRetentionDays for each deleted blobs(Note: due to this bug, you should turn off versioning feature.):