[aboodman]

Noms should be useful as a backup utility, but I'd say it's especially useful for backing up data which is not files. Think about backing up data which you only have access to via API.

You can take the JSON output of an API and drop it into Noms, then do the same thing tomorrow, and Noms will automatically deduplicate the data as well as give you a nice structured API to read and interact with it.

We have an example of this here: https://github.com/attic-labs/noms/tree/master/samples/js/fl... but it's not working atm due to a bug introduced right before launch. You can look at the code though.