TEKL  Would be nice to be able to backup also from ftp to the local disk. Or can someone recommend a scheduled backup solution for websites?  
(Version 1.6)

VALENTINISSIMO  Mathusalem answers all my wishes for a back-up solution: Tested it with 600 MB worth of data sent to iDisk, S3 and to external disk and all three work like a charm. I especially like the way the retrieve function was designed. I had to do some experimenting with different settings because the documentation is not as good as with a commercial product. On the other hand you get a very little intrusive piece of software which works quite intuively.   
(Version 1.5)

PHILIPBECK  I am getting an error message that I don't understand -

"Unable to read BOM file (null)"

What does that mean and what do I do?

Is there a way to email the developer except through this review?

Thanks

p  
(Version 1.4)

POL-ONLINE  Regarding excluded files / directories: you must choose the right table: exclude either by name or full-path. There is _no_ pattern matching however. AFAIK, exclusion works fine.

Amazon S3 seems to work for the majority of users (if not all) as there are no issue report so far.

However, there is a pending issue on Mathusalem stuck in "idle" mode that a few users experienced:

http://code.google.com/p/mathusalem/issues/detail?id=55

If you have any info on this, please add a comment to the issue, so that it can be investigated.  
(Version 1.2)

POL-ONLINE  If you want to back up to an FTP server, make sure to select FTP in the destination type, not SFTP. SFTP is for file transfers over SSH, so it won't work at all with FTP servers!  
(Version 1.2)

JETFIREDX  Doesn't work with my Comcast FTP webspace. Shows connecting with ssh:// instead of ftp://. (I read the instructions and did not put the leading ftp:// in server name)

Console logs show that the backup completes with result null and nothing is in my ftp folder.

Looks like it will be a nice tool when its working.  
(Version 1.1)

BORLOX  Promising, but doesn't yet deliver.

I tried to use this to back up my home directory to S3. I chose an encrypted compressed disk image as the archive type. It made a complete local copy of the source directory, including all the files I had excluded from backup, then stalled with the progress dialog showing "idle". No data was uploaded.

Also, I noticed that it can't create a new bucket if one already exists.

If the developer keeps working on it, this might be a useful app someday.  
(Version 1.0b11)