COMODO BackUp 4 whishlist

[panic]

BUMP!!!

More and more clients are asking for CBU to be updated to cover 2010 and 2013.

Cheers,
Ewen

@panic post:37

I think this is beyond a WISH …

Currently CBU only supports Outlook 2003 and 2007. Outlook 2003 is not currently supported by Microsoft and /outlook 2007 is approaching EOL.

CBU currently does not recognize Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 or Outlook 365.

When will CBU be updated to support current, in use versions of Outlook?

Ewen

[Justin-Goldberg]

I would like to see:

better logging support (preferably in Applications and Services Logs. When running as a service there is no log that I can find (this is windows 2008, which is buggy).

[Justin-Goldberg]

Also friendlier or more verbose logs. For example, say “Network SMB credentials failed”, rather than saying “Error writing in backup file.”

higher priority: be able to backup the complete disk(s) that are on different physical disks. Currently I have to schedule two jobs to do this.

[alfi819]

@alphestdev post:3

Wish #1 and always has been: ENCRYPTED SYNCRONIZATION

I want to be able to backup my (growing) 28GB of workstation data within a few minutes(or even seconds) at the end of each day.

There is only need for up-to-date data in my case, so no differential complexity or backup version cycles are needed. No background services, no full backups of 28GB every day, just quick sync predefined files/folders to 1 or 2 encrypted backup locations on user request.

Since Dmailer Sync development was dropped the backup-market is lacking such an effective tool. I really would be glad to see this in Comodo Backup!

That’s a great idea. +1

[alfi819]

@Grovest post:38

[…]My wish for COMODO 4 would be for it to offer a simplified method to create a ‘recovery USB’ since fewer and fewer laptops have CD/DVD drives. Basically a single click to perform a complete backup and create a rescue USB Flash from which the entire system can be restored without installing Windows first.[…]

I would prefer to have it this way: One click button to create a recovery bootable USB drive that allow to connect to whatever backup store over iSCSI, NAS share, FTP, Rsync, DFS-R, Cloud, USB, eSATA, VHD, VHDX, etc. and proceed to a bare metal recovery to the same or dissimilar hardware.
With that feature, I would recommend CBU without restriction.

[alfi819]

Backup verification is good but restore simulation’s better. A backup is only helpful if you can rely on it and make sure you can recover from it

[alfi819]

One of the greatest thing that should be implemented is a bandwidth friendly protocol like Rsync or DFS-R.
Rsync client and server should be implemented so two CBU installations could be used to achieve remote sync or incremental backups.
DFS-R is even a better solution as it doesn’t bother with filename’s changes or files that have been moved to some other folder in the structure. It’s working at the block level so it can sync a 200 GB working set in a matter of minutes over a slow link WAN like Internet.
Of course, encrypted channel option like SSH or SSL or VPN (like Comodo Unity) would be a must too.
For many similar backup files, integration with Windows Server 2012 deduplication feature would be a reasonable choice.