Well, Killer... being an IT guy, I've seen backup solutions that just aren't user-friendly for the common person. At a place where I used to work we came up with a batch file that copied files to a USB key, or an external hard drive. All the user had to do was double click on the shortcut we put on their desktop. That was simple. However they don't get to configure the backups themselves.
Where I work now we used to use arcserve (or something like that). It wasn't too intuitive for even an IT person, and it didn't play well with the servers that we were backing up anyway. We actually just copy files to an external hdd for some stuff, and we have a couple of servers that we use tape backups as they were part of a solution we bought from a vendor.
Howerver, there are many many businesses out there who can't afford much in the way of an IT guy or IT consulting. They would be the be main beneficiary of such a program. They need something that speaks to them on their level when trying to configure and run their backups. How to make the program simple for them? Hard ofr me to say, otherwise I may have already come up with it.
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