To warn everyone: Mozy is a piece of shit. The software was written by retards and will happily steal all the I/O on my laptop for up to 15 minutes in order to backup a 1kb file. It runs on my laptop only because work mandates we back up something.
http://www.crashplan.com/ seems to be alright, though its java process can get somewhat bloated on OSX...
And yes, I've tried building one myself, but ran up against patent trolling for p2p backup and had to shut it down even though it was just a hobby project. Does anyone know if all these companies have licensed the patents that cover peer-to-peer backups? I _so_ wish I had prior art to show against that... See this for cucku's take - http://www.cucku.com/cucku-shut-down.aspx
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And yes, I've tried building one myself, but ran up against patent trolling for p2p backup and had to shut it down even though it was just a hobby project. Does anyone know if all these companies have licensed the patents that cover peer-to-peer backups? I _so_ wish I had prior art to show against that... See this for cucku's take - http://www.cucku.com/cucku-shut-down.aspx