Use Duplicati with a cold cloud storage

[JonMikelV]

@Toto31

I would like to use duplicati with a cold cloud storage

@samw is right about the cumbersome restore process cloud storage would entail. There’s some more info about it here:

Azure Blob - Using Archive Access Tier

There is currently no support for demoting the files to cold storage, but I don’t think it would require a big changed in terms of backup. Yes, you can add --no-backend-verification --no-auto-compact to have a setup that does not require that you can read remote files. I am not familiar enough with the feature to know if it still returns the cold-storage items in the file listing. If it does list the files, a better setup is --remote-samples=0 --no-auto-compact which will still do verificatio…