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Faster Backups & Recovery
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Enterprise Back-End
Zoolz leverages the reliable robust Amazon Cloud, which is trusted by millions.
No Backup Limitations
There are no backup or upload limitations regardless of type or size.
I've grabbed an account just in case they're limited, but i'll look in to it first before i think about uploading anything.
#edit
pretty good review here ..
cloudwards.net/rev…lz/
do you back-up your back-ups on another "cloud" ?
See Comment #4 :).
I might consider using it for my music collection in that case. I've already backed it up on my NAS and locally (as well as being on my iPhone) so maybe a 'cloud' solution won't be such a bad idea. Everything else i've got that needs backing up goes in to terabytes so wouldn't fit ..
If I were you, I'll setup my own personal cloud as you pay quite high.
I recently setup wd cloud 4tb for around £100 (refurbished) and it gives me my own cloud. it is not difficult to setup and maintain. I also notice that the encryption that these providers keep mentioning are the transmission encryption. but on my cloud, admin access can access all account files without any encryption. not sure whether the business cloud differs but if they are the same then they will have access to your data.
I did the same with a cheap 2tb. Not one I updated the firmware, there was no way to safely power down the unit! I only found out a few days before setting off to India, so I guess it's staying on for 5 months!
I went for the Canon irista promo on here for backing up my photos, but I've not used it yet. Worryingly, a lot of people who used the loophole to get 330gb free, had the extra storage removed
Stick with the well known ones, and pay for what you get, most freebies will be gone tomorrow or end in tears.
Given how many of those fail just out of warranty, you might want to back up your back up!
I see the word refurbished and shudder.
• Zoolz may go bust.
• your backup with the Zoolz backup software may become corrupt or not backup crucial files.
What about redundancy? You backup to something all located in one place?
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/3835ag/goodbye_zoolz_old_news/
Make sure you go into preferences and use multithreaded upload if you've got a decent connection. Currently maxxing mine out.
The "faster backups and recovery" part is a bit of a swizz, too. Glacier storage takes HOURS to recover from, so don't get this expecting to be able to instantly recover stuff that you've backed up.
That seems very good! I must look into it.
there is an app to power down the unit
I used it for my backup only. I understand your concern, it took me a while before I take the plunge so we will see. I backup my backup too so no worries
So what do you do with it then? You just upload to the cloud and then you can't access it again unless you buy the service and then you can?
Agreed - Backblaze/crasplan (or even carbonite) are generally what i recommend to people (or set up your own S3 if you're technically inclined). A lot of smaller outfits aren't as reliable.
I suspect you can access it again, but only if you need to restore the backup. It's probably not a service like dropbox where you're constantly writing files to and from your cloud space.
Doesn't matter to me either way really. I've got three seperate backups of my music collection and this one will be the fourth, so if they don't let me access it i'll just remove the account.
Still got 3,500 files to upload though
There's an interesting article here from Torrenfreak from 2014 about a Zoolz user who had his entire account terminated because he'd seemingly uploaded some ".torrent" files without realising - no actual pirated content, just the .torrent file itself.
torrentfreak.com/bac…23/
Got all my music and media on my NAS. Ideally i'll also get a portable HDD as well as a further redundancy but 3TB ones are quite expensive for me.
The more backups i have of my music, the better ..
Also, been doing some more reading and it appears that if you do want to restore your backups from Zoolz, it will apparently take 3 hours at a bare minimum to grab one file, so if, like me, you've got nearly 13k files, you might be a while ..
If you take up the 2TB lifetime offer you get 1TB cold storage and 1TB vault storage which is instant access to files.
That's what I used to do before cloud and relied on phsycal hard drives. I moved everything to DropBox but had iCloud for photos.
Now everything sits in iCloud. I use 1.1TB this includes emails, photos, desktop old pictures that are archived. I mean everything! And I don't have a secondary backup. Should Apple ever delete my data I'm screwed. Scary world we live in.
It's hardly "scary" when there are so many options available to make a secondary backup ..
i like to keep local and cloud backups - you know just in case
Speak for yourself... It's a scary world that you live in!