This has been described as Google's [[special_remotes/glacier]].

* [Announcement](http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.in/2015/03/introducing-Google-Cloud-Storage-Nearline-near-online-data-at-an-offline-price.html)
* <https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/nearline-storage>

> This is a dup of
> [[bugs/Support_non-default_storage_classes_with_Google_Cloud_Storage]],
> which has more useful info, so [[closing|done]].
> 
> However, that about using its S3 compatability API. There's an external
> special remote just for nearline, which may be a better choice due to
> using the native API, and already works. --[[Joey]]