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Is it possible to manually configure a remote storage solution as the entry point for a flow? I know you can set `flow._entrypoint` but (a) is this sufficient (using an fsspec url)? (b) would you need to configure `flow._storage` as well?

hi <@U0310QYGU2F> - I wouldn't recommend depending on private attrs of `Flow`

&gt; Is it possible to manually configure a remote storage solution as the entry point for a flow?
in general this is what `from_source` is for, whether its your s3 block, just an s3 bucket, github or a gist

<https://docs.prefect.io/3.0/deploy/run-flows-in-local-processes#retrieve-a-flow-from-remote-storage>

The issue is that i do not want to generate a deployment from the remote storage. We used to be able to deploy the flow, and then once we knew the deployment was successful, upload the new code to remote storage.

The flow is being deployed from a local environment

```def deploy_my_flow(flow: Flow):
    # configure deployment

    flow.to_deployment()

    deployment.apply()

    # upload to remote storage```