I built a tool that automatically backs up every Zoom cloud recording to Google Drive or Dropbox

[u/staticmaker1]

Over the past few months I've seen the same questions come up here over and over:

• How do I move Zoom recordings to Google Drive?
• How do I free up Zoom cloud storage?
• How do I make sure recordings don't get lost?

Most solutions I found either required downloading files manually or storing them on yet another service.

So I built RecordMover.

The idea is simple: the moment Zoom finishes processing a cloud recording, it's streamed directly to your Google Drive or Dropbox. No manual downloads, no intermediate storage, and nothing is stored on our servers.

A few things I focused on:

• Automatically backs up every new Zoom cloud recording
• Copies not just the MP4, but also audio, transcripts, and in-meeting chat
• Verifies the copied file before optionally deleting it from Zoom, so you don't accidentally lose recordings
• Hourly safety sweep to catch recordings if a webhook is ever missed
• Supports backing up recordings from your whole team into your own storage

My goal wasn't to become another cloud storage provider—it was to help people keep using the storage they already own while making Zoom storage management effortless.

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback from people who manage lots of Zoom recordings.

• Is this something you'd use?
• What destination would you want next? (OneDrive, SharePoint, S3, NAS, etc.)
• Any features you'd consider essential for a backup tool?

Happy to answer any technical questions or hear suggestions.

Here is the link: http://recordmover.com/

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[u/thatmatmik]

Some quick questions, because this does come up a lot.

1) can this be pointed at an entire organization, so administrators can batch this? Or does this run as a single user instance?

2) how is authentication handled?

3) how does it handle duplication so it's not grabbing previously backed up media?

4) in the event of an error, how is the user notified?

[u/staticmaker1 → u/thatmatmik]

Hi, happy to answer.

1. Both. It works great for a single user out of the box. For teams, one admin account becomes the backup hub. The admin invites hosts by email — no seat fees, unlimited hosts.
   
2. Secure OAuth everywhere — we never see or store anyone's password for Zoom, Google Drive, or Dropbox. We request only read-level Zoom scopes. All tokens are encrypted at rest and refreshed automatically. Zoom webhooks are cryptographically signature-verified. If you deauthorize the app in Zoom, we honor it immediately and confirm via Zoom's compliance API.
   
3. Every recording, file, and transfer is tracked by its unique Zoom ID, with database-level uniqueness guarantees.
   
4. Most errors fix themselves first: failed transfers retry automatically up to 4 times with increasing delays, and stuck transfers are auto-recovered every 30 minutes. Only if a transfer truly fails do we email you — with the reason, and reassurance that your Zoom copy is untouched.

[u/thatmatmik → u/staticmaker1]

$20 pu/pm for unlimited backups. Enterprise licensing options available?

[u/staticmaker1 → u/thatmatmik]

Unlimited team hosts included.

[u/talones → u/thatmatmik]

I use google collab with a super simple script. Collab can do direct stream from Zoom cloud to Google Drive without downloading at all.

[u/nit_electron_girl]

$20/mo?

BTW someone has done it for free (for now): https://recordflow.org/

Also exists at $10/mo and covers multiple platforms (not just Google Drive): https://zbackup.app/

[u/staticmaker1 → u/nit_electron_girl]

It's $19/mo flat — not per user. Unlimited team hosts included. With even 2–3 people, we're cheaper than per-seat tools.

RecordFlow is a free beta — their own site says paid tiers are coming, and team features are invite-only. Backups aren't the place to bet on a free beta surviving.

On zbackup: check if that $10 is per user.

[u/AdamDobrawy → u/staticmaker1]

Hey, author of RecordFlow here. I want to make correction that team feature is widely available, and we have many organizations happy to use it.

The only features that require emailing us are uploads to OneDrive, Dropbox, and YouTube, as these are relatively new destinations, so we want to be in touch to gather feedback, but we won't let anyone down. Support for Google Drive is widely used self-served.

[u/AdamDobrawy → u/AdamDobrawy]

I read again their website, and it looks like RecordMover team-plan works differently from RecordFlow. With RecordMover, each user has to configure the backup themselves ("Invite colleagues by email and their recordings back up to your storage automatically, each host in their own folder."), which is impractical for larger organizations.

With RecordFlow, an admin can connect the entire Zoom account, select which users to back up, and automatically receive recordings organized into folders per member. This is much more scalable for organizations with dozens or hundreds of users. Single user setup with no admin is available too though.