<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. Cucku, a social backup system, is a great solution to saving your files offsite. Why do you need to save your files offsite you ask…

For one you should always have a backup of your important files. Whether is be to a jumpdrive, portable hard drive, extra internal hard drive, or offsite. Personally, I have a backup run weekly of my documents and pictures and save that to an extra internal hard drive and I try to burn my pics to dvd after they build up and put them in a safe deposit box at my bank. The only problem with burning dvd’s is it’s not automatic, and lets face it if its not automatic your going to slip up. The reason to have an offsite backup is in case of natural disasters, fire, tornado, earthquake, anything that could ruin your computer.

Cucku offers offsite backup through peers in skype. Chances are you have someone you trust with extra room on their hard drive, and if they don’t buy them some extra space it only a one time fee instead of monthly with some online storage services. Your files are encrypted so you don’t have to worry about your friend seeing those pics you took of your wife in the shower while she wasn’t looking.

The only draw back to this program is the first download is slow and will take awhile. But after that it only syncs the changes that have been made. You can set it to backup daily or weekly and the program runs in the background and doesn’t seem to hinder your bandwidth at all. You can also setup multiple offsite backups with different contacts in skype. The software is very user friendly and either party can pause or stop the transfer.

Check out Cucku - Social backup here

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