Norton Zone as a Temporary Back-up?

Until now, I have only used Norton  Zone from my mobile device.  I now have to do a clean install of Windows 8 without much time to plan or prepare.  I downloaded the Norton Zone software to my desktop.  I understand Norton Zone is not a back-up program and whatever I back-up will not return in good order.  Does  this sound practical or am I heading for a disaster?

 

I believe I recently saw that Adobe was discontinuing providing Acrobat.com for uploading and saving files to.  Is there a way Norton Zone can be used in its place?