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Written by Security Guru   
Friday, 08 August 2008 23:32

Here's a novel approach to backing up some of your data ...

You do need a friend with an online PC though. Got one of those :-) ? If so read on ...

Cucku is a "Social Backup" service that lets you and a friend backup data on each others' PC. Your data goes to their PC and vice versa.

Nice concept, especially if it's free ... and it is for "one friend/backup".

So some obvious advantages and disadvantages occur to mind pretty quickly (especially for the free one partner offering); but overall it would be a good additional data availability strategy to complement a more traditional onsite backup to local disc.

We'll give this a try and report back with ease of use and see how those advantages & disadvantages pan out ...


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