In the past year since Jungle Disk was first released we occasionally get stories about how Jungle Disk “saved the day” when someone’s hard drive crashed or had a laptop stolen. They are always great to read, but I thought this one was especially interesting because the user had initially forgotten about their Jungle Disk backup and thought all was lost, and blogged about it along the way.
Read how Troy had a 1 month old 1TB drive fail, with estimates of $1200-$2500 to recover the data (if possible).
Then see his elation as he realizes that Jungle Disk has quietly been backing up his files for the last few months, saving the day (and the $1200).
Do you have your own story of how Jungle Disk saved the day? Be sure to tell us about it.
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A said,
August 23, 2007 @ 12:07 pm
The post said that JD checked for changed files, is that the same as incremental backups? I thought that JD couldn’t do that?
Jungle Dave said,
August 23, 2007 @ 1:13 pm
Jungle Disk does incremental backup – that is, it only backs up new or modified files. What it does not (yet) do is byte-level updates – i.e. if you only modify a few bytes in a file, only that data is transferred. Currently when a file is modified the entire file is backed up.