Amit Agarwal says:
Cucku is a new backup program cum web service that attempts to take the best parts of each form of backup. First, Cucku lets you easily backup your important files and folders to your own hard drive and to portable drives you own. Then, in a unique twist on traditional online backup services, Cucku lets you store an encrypted copy of your files on your friends' and family member's computers through the internet using Skype. Read the full review: Backup Your Files to a Trusted Friend's Computer using Skype .
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posted by Rob on Thursday, October 08, 2009
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Lee Clemmer at Bright Hub writes:
Cucku has a feature set you wouldn't expect from a free service. Unlimited backup size, automatic local and online backup, file version support and restore, deleted file restore, as well as locked file backup are all included. Backup of external and network drives is a welcome feature as well. Some free online backup solutions are only free until you need to restore. Cucku allows you to restore without paying. Along with this impressive feature set, Cucku notes that you will also be a "Backup Hero for a Friend". Check out the full Cucku Backup Review and also Lee's article The Pros and Cons of Online Backup vs. Local Backup .
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posted by Rob on Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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I'd like to share some of the great coverage we received for the Cucku Backup v2.0 launch yesterday.
For example, this is ideal for families with who have several children in college, where the PC at home is the "mothership" which contains the backups for the remote students. If Junior accidentally crashes his hard drive away at school and needs a copy of his graduate thesis that he's been working on for several months, no problem - he can get it from dad's PC at home, because CUCKU runs transparently in the background.Cucku 2.0: Be your own Internet backup service Over at GigaOm Janko Roettgers likes our "sneakernet" backup seeding. This is the ability to send your first backup on an external hard drive and then only send new and changed files over the Internet:
I must admit that I was skeptical when I first heard about Cucku. However, I love the idea of an easy way to combine online with sneakernet backups, and I liked what I saw when I played a little with the new Cucku version over the last few days.Cucku Uses Skype to Back Up Your Family's Data Dong Ngo at C|Net mentions Cucku for small businesses. Small companies can backup their critical data to a founder's PC at home. Larger businesses can benefit from backing up between sites. The new command line online backup capability of Cucku Backup Pro even allows you to run Cucku as a backup server for all your laptop users:
With these new features, Cucku's Backup Pro is intended for home users and those who need their backup replicated to multiple computers for better protection against disasters. Also, this makes Cucku a viable backup solution for small businessesCucku online backup goes pro At InternetNews.com Alex Goldman discusses the huge time saving of using the backup export feature. This works both ways - you can also export files from a partner for restore:
The second advantage is time: it can take advantage of the full speed of the local network which likely exceeds any connection to the Internet, especially the meager upstream that most home users and many small businesses deal with.Cucku uses Skype for encrypted backup
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posted by Rob on Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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Jason Fitzpatrick at lifehacker says:
If you've considered using remote backup to keep your data safe from disaster but you're wary of putting your backups on a third-party server, Cucku Backup is for you. The lifehacker post follows Cucku being included in The 10 Best Windows Backup Software Programs at gHacks.
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posted by Rob on Monday, April 27, 2009
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Craig Crossman writes:
So why would you choose to do an offsite backup this way? Well for one thing, it's free. And secondly, you know who's got your back or more accurately, your backup. It's not off in the Internet cloud somewhere. It's a novel concept and given the cost, it's definitely worth a try. read the rest of Craig's review at PhysOrg.com .
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posted by Rob on Thursday, November 20, 2008
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Jason Perlow from ZDNet made this demo showing how to backup and restore using Cucku Backup: ZDNet .
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posted by Rob on Friday, October 17, 2008
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Jason Chen at Gizmodo worries about how long it takes to complete your first remote backup:
This is why online backup solutions need an initial sneakernet transfer of hard drives loaded up with your data (which Cucku does not offer in its current implementation). It's true - online backup works better if you do the first exchange of files in person. Cucku doesn't support exchanging hard drives, but it does support connecting your computers together for backup and restore. Traditional online backup won't help you here - you're limited by the upload speed of your Internet connection.Cucku Social Backup Stores Your Data With Your Friend, Your Friend's Data With You .
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posted by Rob on Monday, July 28, 2008
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<insert cheesy comment="You must be cuckoo for not using Cucku!"> But seriously I have searched for quite awhile looking for a good peer-to-peer backup system and I've found it. Read the rest of the Cucku Backup review at the I Help Stupid People blog.
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posted by Rob on Wednesday, June 18, 2008
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