Abstract: An electrical component protective cover for an appliance has an upper portion and a lower panel portion. The upper portion forms a cavity within a housing having a plurality of walls, which form a perimeter around the electrical component. At least one vent in at least one sidewall of the housing vents air and enables moisture to escape from the interior of the housing. A strip of barrier material is positioned between an edge of the perimeter of the housing and the appliance, the barrier material being a narrow piece of a resilient caulk material to impede liquid or moisture from entering the interior of the housing. The protective cover attaches to the electrical component using attachment receptacles such as female tab recesses. The lower portion has an aperture intermediate the upper portion and the lower portion to provide electrical component access through the cover without removing the cover.

Abstract: Methods and systems for performing peer-to-peer backup are provided. According to one embodiment, a P2P backup system includes multiple peers on an IP network forming a P2P network, an edge peer residing behind a firewall, a rendezvous server, a relay server and a P2P backup process running on each of the peers. Each peers may function as a server peer by storing a configurable amount of backup data on behalf of other peers. The rendezvous server is visible to all of the peers and configured to enable the peers to discover other online peers. The relay server is associated with the edge peer and allows communication to/from other of the peers to be initialed with the edge peer. The P2P backup process automatically and securely backs up data of one or more of the peers to one or more remote server peers in accordance with a configurable backup schedule.