Restoring deleted and/or older files in Cucku Backup
Jimmy Bergmark blogged yesterday about some problems with online backup. He talked about one provider in general, but the issues are common. His main concerns were slow restore speed and restoring either deleted files or to a specific state.
I've talked about restore speed before. One of the main advantages of Cucku's approach is that you can restore directly from a partner at LAN speed when that makes sense.
Unlike many traditional online backup services Cucku stores every backup version of every file, including deleted files. Deleted files aren't shown by default when restoring and if you do a full restore you'll get the latest version of every non-deleted file (i.e. the state of your system at the time of the last backup).
If you need to recover a deleted file just check Show deleted files and folders during restore. The example below shows a folder with some deleted pictures.
Cucku also supports restoring files and folders as they exist in the backup at a specific date and time. You can set the date/time for a full restore (see the setting below), or you can pick from a list of all the versions stored for a specific file.
posted by Rob on Monday, April 13, 2009
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Is there any way to "seed" a large backup to a partner with Cucku? For example, I would like to do a local backup to a USB drive, then haul it to the office and configure it there as my "partner". If this is possible with Cucko, please point us to instructions!
If you can connect your computers together (i.e. on the same LAN or WiFi) then you can run your first remote backup at high speed. The same applies to restore. This is a big advantage over traditional online backup - you can't invite a datacenter over to run a quick backup.
We realize that it's not always convenient to have both computers in the same location. The next version of Cucku Backup will include export/import so you send a copy of your remote backup on a thumb drive, external hard drive or optical media. This will allow the sneakernet seeding you're looking for. If your partner is far away, you could even post each other an external hard drive to get things started.
Thank you for the response Rob. Glad this features is going to be added.
I hope the 4GB file size restriction will also go away with the next version. This restriction means you can't back up most virtual pc files - a big deal to some of us.
Supporting >4GB files is on the wish list, but it isn't something we get asked about often. I'll count this as a vote for the feature!
A work around would be to split the VM files into smaller chunks - you could do this using the WinZip command line (or various freeware alternatives). Run this as a scheduled task however frequently makes sense and then point Cucku at the folder containing the chunks. I know this isn't ideal, but it's something that would work until we add support for very large files.
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