To help you stay competitive and make it easy to import your old data backups to the cloud, we’re introducing Offline Media Import/Export. This is a solution that allows you to load data into any
Google Cloud Storage class (Standard, DRA and Nearline) by sending your physical media -- such as hard disk drives (HDDs), tapes, and USB flash drives -- to a third party service provider who uploads data on your behalf. Offline Media Import/Export is helpful if you’re limited to a slow, unreliable, or expensive Internet connection. It’s also a great complement to the newly released Google Cloud Storage Nearline, a simple, low-cost, fast-response storage service with quick data backup, retrieval and access.
