Mozy.com recently announced the start of beta testing for the Mac version of their online backup service. Offering up to 2GB of free storage space and unlimited transfer or a low cost of less than $5/month for unlimited storage and transfer, Mozy offers the following features:

# Open/locked file support
# Block-level differential backup
# Bandwidth throttling
# 128-bit SSL support (to secure your data during transport)
# 448-bit Blowfish encryption (to secure your data on our server)
# Continuous or scheduled backup options
# Referral program for more storage for both me AND you

Read on for a temporary workaround on a bug for running Mozy as a regular user.

It's still in beta (I've noticed that it will not run under a regular user account, only administrator) and subject to changes on the release of the final version, but it's great to see something like this finally available.

For the time being, it appears that a possible workaround is to modify the following permissions:

legacyb4$ su administrator (your admin account)
legacyb4$ cd /Library/Application Support
legacyb4$ sudo chmod 2777 Mozy
legacyb4$ cd Mozy
legacyb4$ sudo chown YOU cache.db (change ownership to self)
legacyb4$ sudo chown YOU history.db (change ownership to self)
legacyb4$ sudo chown YOU manifest.db (change ownership to self)
legacyb4$ sudo chown YOU state.db (change ownership to self)

Basically, make the Mozy folder writable by everyone and change ownership of the state.db file to yourself.

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