Zoolz Update 2

I continue to be impressed by Zools as a backup tool. You can get Lifetime of 1TB Instant Vault and 1TB of Cold Backup Storage here for $45.

Since my last post I have tried the Instant Vault storage. Think of it as 1TB of shared storage like Dropbox shared files. But you have to login to the Zoolz web interface and drag and drop files/folders onto a web page.

Then you can request shared links to the files/folders. Those files/folders are NOT automatically updated. This is a separate terabyte of storage from the Cold Backup Storage.

But what really got me looking back at Zoolz was that my CrashPlan for Small Business at 75% discount for a year expired and my monthly charge went to $10. Not a big deal but $10 more than I used to pay.

In revisiting Zoolz I came across a feature that I hadn't noticed before - Hybrid+ backup.

Zoolz Hybrid+ doubles your backup protection by creating a copy of every backed up file to a local server, external or network drive; ensuring faster recovery when needed. Zoolz restore is intelligent enough to minimize recovery time by checking your local Hybrid storage for the file before restoring it from the web, reducing time and bandwidth resources.

And it's included with the regular Zoolz offering.

So I bought a 2TB Western Digital USB 3 drive and plugged it into the back of "The Trump".

Here's how you turn it on.

It took about 4 hours to sync the 400+ GB that I have selected to backup with Zoolz.

Zoolz support was excellent in helping me understand how Hybrid+ worked, even doing some experiments to answer some of my questions.

So now I have cloud backup with Zoolz Cold Backup Storage, local backup with Zoolz Hybrid+, and offline backup with Macrium Reflect.