Amazon Glacier
1. Sign up for an AWS Account
2. Download and install an SDK (learn how to code)
3. Create a vault by signing in, selecting your region, naming the vault, triggering notifications
4. Upload to your Vault, by creating a program to use the API.
5. Either zip all your data in one big file, or place in your code your file selections
6. Execute the code
7. Maintain an index to map your files in the archive
8. Repeat steps 5, 6, and 7 for every change you need to upload
Zoolz
1. Sign up for a Zoolz Account
2. Download and install the setup
3. Create a backup by signing in, Selecting what to backup, set your backup settings
4. You’re done, your backup will run automatically and take all file changes.
Cost for 1 TB
$10/mo
+ Code lessons or purchasing a software
Time to configure
Depends how good you are in programming; more than an hour
Cost for 1 TB
$16.67/mo
Time to configure
Less than 5 minutes
Amazon Glacier
1. Access your map index to find out which Archive ID you need to retrieve your files
2. Create a script to retrieve your data from the vault
3. Execute the script
4. Wait 3-5 hours to download
5. Download your files
6. Sort out which file goes where
7. Place them in their correct locations
Zoolz
1. Go to the restore and select specific files you want to restore
2. Start Restore
3. You’re done, Zoolz will restore everything in its correct location
Cost for restoring 1TB
$1,900 +
Minimum to restore first file
3-5 hours just to get the files
Cost for restoring 1TB
$0
Minimum to restore first file
0 – 5 hours
| Features | Amazon Glacier | Zoolz |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic backup of new and changed files | – | – |
| Restore time | 3-5 hour wait, plus download time | Zero Time thanks to Hybrid+ |
| Added costs | – | $0 (zero added cost) |
| Photo Preview for jpg and RAW images | – | – |
| 2x the protection with local | – | (with Hybrid +) |
| Encrypt your files before leaving your machine | – | – |
| Enterprise level features such as user management, deployment, policies and more | – | – |
| Fully featured product | – | – |
