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Is it possible/feasible/reasonable to build an online Time Machine for OS X? [closed]

Is it possible/feasible/reasonable to build an online Time Machine for OS X? [closed]

I don't have Time Machine enabled just because I don't want to buy an extra device, but I was just wondering? Would it be possible to build an online time machine service?

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"The big challenge is that end-users' available bandwidth has not kept pace with the amount of data being created locally.

Just to add in another competing back-up product, to the others that have been listed already, I use CrashPlan which does a nice job of de-duplicating data (it doesn't copy the whole file every time it is changed by a few bytes, nor does it have to transfer it again if it's renamed, or duplicated.)

CrashPlan offer a pay-for central backup hosting service (like the Mozy and JungleDisk solutions), or you can get your friends to install it and exchange back-ups (they're all encrypted at source, so they can't see what you've sent them.)"