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Sami
Sami

Reputation: 1404

Unzip folder in Windows Azure Blob Storage

I've read you can upload an application such as winzip to your blob storage to unzip a folder stored in blob storage, my question is how would I go about doing this also where would the contents of the folder be extracted too?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2154

Answers (2)

user1922984
user1922984

Reputation:

U can download the zip blob as Stream then u extract that stream and then only you can Upload the files in windows Azure...

steps have to follow :

  1. First download the zip as stream

  2. Unzip the zip file using that stream

  3. Upload that again as u wish

Upvotes: 1

astaykov
astaykov

Reputation: 30903

This must have been some missleading information, or you didn't understand it. There is no way you can execute a process in the Windows Azure Blob storage. It is Storage Service, not a process execution engine, nor operating system.

You certainly can upload any files in Windows Azure Blob storage, but you cannot execute them there. You can only execute files (i.e. lauch a process) in a Windows Azure Roles (Web or Worker or VM). You could have your own process running in a Worker or Web Role, which expects a ZIP package, then unzip it locally, then upload all the files in the Windows Azure Blob storage. But you cannot have that process itself running in a Windows Azure Storage service.

Upvotes: 0

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