# Use Duplicati with a cold cloud storage

**URL:** <https://forum.duplicati.com/t/use-duplicati-with-a-cold-cloud-storage/1988>\
**Category:** How-To\
**Created:** [January 5, 2018, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/use-duplicati-with-a-cold-cloud-storage/1988 "2018-01-05T18:02:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![JonMikelV](https://forum.duplicati.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@JonMikelV](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/JonMikelV)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2018, 3:58am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/use-duplicati-with-a-cold-cloud-storage/1988/3 "2018-01-06T03:58:48Z")

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> [@Toto31](#):
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> 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](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/azure-blob-using-archive-access-tier/674/6):
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> 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…

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