Comments on: Forget Time Machine and Mozy! Jungle Disk is my backup of Choice

By: David

David — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:28:06 +0000

Backblaze is the best option for online backup from a mac at the moment.

By: Blake Burris

Blake Burris — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:52:30 +0000

Thanks Dan! This is a comforting endorsement. I finally got around to using JD after seeing the Rackspace acquisition news yesterday. I’ll sleep much better knowing my backup is not in the same location as my data.

By: Steven Scott

Steven Scott — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:56:40 +0000

I back everything up with time machine. I use JD+ to backup pictures, source code, and important documents (99% of my documents I run through my fujitsu scansnap document scanner and then shred)

By: Derek Punsalan

Derek Punsalan — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:41:57 +0000

+1 for Jungle Disk Plus from me. Started using it again a few nights ago. The initial upload for an entire directory backup is a bit of a pain though (unless you have incredible uploads). After that, incremental backups of only changed files is good.

I’m even considering setting up a separate bucket for hosting images on my site. There are a few things that I’m unsure about though for the hosting part… 1) latency (S3 is awesome for storing and retrieving large files but what about smaller items hundreds of times per hour?), and 2) people outside of the US or who use some type of adblocking may get images blocked.

By: David

David — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:56:07 +0000

I use plain old Jungle Disk, but I also backup via home-brewed scripts that AES-encrypt all the files in .RAR archives before uploading.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:28:12 +0000

I love JungleDisk. While it’s not the most economical choice, it allows archiving (which Mozy does not). I figure for about $10 per month, it’s well worth the comfort of knowing that everything I’ve ever created and all of my music + photos are safely (and securely) stored elsewhere. I’ve already been burned once by a stolen laptop. Now I won’t have the heartache of losing everything again.

By: acidscan

acidscan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:58:28 +0000

Jungle disk made such a mess with my buckets on amazon that i’ll never use it again. Mozy is way simpler, easier and better.

By: JEFF

JEFF — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:46:24 +0000

The problem is most of these sites only transfer at kbits, not kbytes.. takes forever to xfer you’re data

cough Mozy