We’re preparing the next release of Jungle Disk and are ready to make a beta version available for those interested in trying it early. This version includes some major under-the-hood changes to our automatic backup engine and some highly requested new features as well.

Here are the highlights:

• Support for archiving previous versions and deleted files
  This can be enabled for both automatic backup and the mapped drive (if desired) and lets you keep a full history of previous files for a configurable period of time. Any files “deleted” or overwritten are moved into a special archive directory where they can be restored if needed. Having multi-version backup is essential to protect against file corruption or accidental deletion.
• New restore dialog for easily restoring large numbers of files or previous versions
  Restoring large amounts of data via the mapped drive can sometimes be a cumbersome process. The new restore dialog can be used to easily restore files to the original (or different) locations. It can even be used when automatic backup is not enabled to restore data from your mapped drive bucket. The restore dialog also allows you to easily restore previous versions and deleted files (if you have that feature enabled) - either to your local drive, or to their original Jungle Disk location.
• Option to password protect the software - either the configuration only or the entire application
  This is a request we’ve gotten many times from users who want an additional layer of security for the application, or in office situations where the software should not be reconfigured by other users. Paid users can now protect the application or just the configuration using the Jungle Tools account password.
• Option to run backup cleanup on each backup run
  You can now choose to run the backup cleanup operation each time a backup runs (the manual menu option is available as well). Backup Cleanup removes locally deleted files and directories from your backup. Previously we recommend users only do this manually, after reviewing the list of files that would be deleted (in case they had deleted local files accidentally). The new previous version archiving feature means that even if you “clean up” accidentally deleted files they will still be available for restore in your previous versions. This makes it safer to run backup cleanup automatically.

For a full list of changes, please see the Release Notes.

Remember that this is beta software - it has not yet received the same amount of testing and feedback as our release versions. As such we recommend that most users wait until the release version is available. For those wanting to help test the new features, you can download the beta version from the Beta Download Page.