Let me go ahead start things off by introducing myself. My name is Scott Gibson and I joined the Jungle Disk team a few weeks ago, taking on the role of VP of Operations. There certainly isn’t a shortage of things to do around here and I am incredibly excited to be working with Dave Wright and a great product like Jungle Disk.
As many of you know, the current version of Jungle Disk has done a superb job of meeting your online backup and storage needs, however, we have put forth a lot of effort to make the next version even more powerful and more intuitive. It is important to note that many of these new enhancements are a direct result of the valuable feedback that we have received from our customers, so on behalf of all of us here at Jungle Disk…thank you!
Along with the new product update, you can also expect a fresh new look for the JungleDisk.com website.
Ok, so enough beating around the bush…let’s get to what you really want to know in this post…What’s going on with Jungle Disk 2.0?
Here are just a few of the great things you can expect in Jungle Disk 2.0:
Jungle Disk 2.0 will:
- Include a new setup wizard for easy first-time setup
- Implement a completely new automatic backup file/directory selection interface
- Give you the option to connect to multiple buckets at the same time, even under different Amazon accounts
- Support the ability to create multiple backup jobs, each with their own schedule and backup options
- Extend the ‘bandwidth limiting’ features – limits apply to all network traffic, can be set on a schedule, and can be changed on the fly
- Allow for greater control over your ‘previous versions’ options – min and max numbers of previous versions, exclude selected file types and folders
- Provide new Jungle Disk bucket features – instant file and directory renames, encryption key changing, encrypted filenames
- Offer a new ‘backup preview’ dialog
- Enable support for buckets compatible with other S3 software and support for creating European S3 buckets
- Deliver significant performance improvements with large numbers of files
- ….and much more!
Super-Top Secret Screen Shots of Jungle Disk 2.0
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Adam said,
April 2, 2008 @ 1:09 pm
Welcome Scott! Great product – and it’s good to see that JD is expanding the team in order to continue product development. So, the question on everybody’s mind (at least the resellers) is: when can we actually obtain a beta of JD 2.0?
David Moore said,
April 2, 2008 @ 1:21 pm
Sounds great!
What is the ETA for 2.0?
Matt said,
April 2, 2008 @ 1:27 pm
My goodness, am I excited for 2.0!!!
Matthom said,
April 2, 2008 @ 2:16 pm
Are you planning any enhancements to the web access site? ie: username.myjungledisk.com? Right now it’s a very rudimentary interface – great for basic access, but you guys really have an opportunity to compete with online storage services like Box.net, if you wanted. For example, search capabilities, sharing options, etc – would be nice. Just a thought.
Jungle Dave said,
April 2, 2008 @ 2:21 pm
@Adam – There will be a public beta in a few weeks. We’ll announce more as we get closer.
@Matthom – We will be improving that area in the future, although it’s not a focus for the 2.0 release (we can roll out changes to that at any time). The focus for Jungle Disk will continue to be a software-based platform however – we aren’t looking to move the experience to a web based platform as we feel that’s too limiting and compromises security in ways that many user’s aren’t comfortable with.
Flemming Bo Jensen said,
April 2, 2008 @ 2:33 pm
Welcome Scott!!
And wow, does 2.0 look great, can’t wait for the new backup options. I am a photographer and use JungleDisk every day as my 2nd generation off-site backup and love it, but look forward to the much enhanced automatic backup options.
Johnny Deathrage said,
April 2, 2008 @ 3:02 pm
Thanks for the update. I started using JD after a catastrophic drive failure. Did some reasearch, talked to some people and signed right up. Very happy with the current version and can’t wait for 2.0. Great Job!!!!
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Magnus said,
April 2, 2008 @ 11:52 pm
And it will still be cross-platform, right? I use it mostly on my Mac but also from Windows and Linux occasionally and I’d hate to loose that.
Jungle Scott said,
April 3, 2008 @ 6:42 am
@Magnus – Yes, the next release will still support all 3 platforms.
Magnus said,
April 3, 2008 @ 8:36 am
Thanks Jungle Scott, that’s good news. I love the screenshots
df said,
April 3, 2008 @ 9:19 am
Hey, wait a minute. I currently use “My Jungle Disk” in “My Network Places” without mapping to a local drive letter. (”Map to local drive: disabled.”) Looking at your new Configuration Screen #2, I don’t see that option.
Jungle Scott said,
April 3, 2008 @ 10:02 am
@df – Unfortunately, we didn’t initially include a screen shot of the section that supports that functionality. That option still exists under the BUCKET SETTINGS section in the NETWORK DRIVE area. When selecting a drive letter, you will still have the option for “disabled”. We went ahead and uploaded a new screen shot of this area if you would like to take a look.
Luke said,
April 4, 2008 @ 8:07 am
Welcome Scott. Can’t wait for JD 2.0, the multiple bucket support especially as I want to be able to use JD for managing private encrypted backups, and media I want to make available publicly without encryption. Sounds like JD 2.0 should be up to the job
Also, I spotted the deliberate mistake in those screenshots, do I get a prize?! On the ‘Bucket Setup’ screenshot you’ve used a bucket name of ‘HomeBackup’, right alongside which is the message ‘Use only lowercase letters…’
Jungle Scott said,
April 4, 2008 @ 9:21 am
@Luke – It’s great to hear that you will be taking advantage of some of the new features. Also, nice catch on the screen shot! A new screen shot is now in place.
Saulo said,
April 4, 2008 @ 11:33 am
Hi Scott! Great interface, congratulations! And about the reseller version: http://forum.jungledisk.com/viewtopic.php?t=7408?
Any news?
Thanks!
Jungle Dave said,
April 4, 2008 @ 11:37 am
More news on the Workgroup and Reseller editions of the software (which those that read our forums know we’re working on) will be coming soon.
David Underhill said,
April 4, 2008 @ 2:14 pm
Sounds great, I’m looking forward to hearing more about how the workgroup version is going.
August said,
April 5, 2008 @ 3:03 pm
Likewise on the workgroup version. I’m getting killed here with the multiple AWS accounts.
I just need the simplest possible functionality. JD is a bit complicated in the simple case, and sometimes feels “wedged” when lots of stuff is going on in the background.
Basically client drop a LARGE (250MB+ file) onto the drive, and are notified when it has been successfully uploaded. I get a lot of partial uploads.
I’d also love it if JD could operate in simple mode. No file cache, no cached metadata or file names. Users could just browse the list of files with no auto download or background anything. Only when they went to copy the file would a nice message come up saying file transfer or copying with a completion indicator.
Looking forward to the workgroup version! The security features sell the software.
Mark said,
April 6, 2008 @ 3:25 pm
I evaluated Jungle Disk almost 6 months ago, but decided to stick with the S3Fox because of JD’s file naming. It looks like you guys are planning to change that in version 2.0. Great News.
1) Will it work with S3Fox & vice versa?
2) What is the ETA in this release?
From what I read about 2.0, it looked confusing to me that know there will be three different file formats, and that some file info will be stored in a local SQLite database. That looks complicated to me, but I don’t want to comment on it until I see it. Hopefull you will make it all transarent to the users.
Jungle Dave said,
April 6, 2008 @ 3:34 pm
@Mark – #1, yes, see this post for more detail:
http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/02/19/buckets-buckets-everywhere/
#2 – There should be a beta availabine in a few weeks.
If anything, the new release is a lot simpler and easier to use. Although it does have more functionality and more options than 1.0 they are laid out in an easier to understand fashion with more explanations.
David said,
April 7, 2008 @ 1:19 pm
Will this release include publicly accessible buckets?
Jungle Dave said,
April 7, 2008 @ 1:31 pm
Compatible buckets can easily be used as public buckets. We haven’t determined yet whether we’ll provide tools to change the S3 ACLs to public or if you’ll need to use another tool for that. We want to be very careful to ensure that users don’t accidentally set their buckets to public, since most Jungle Disk users use it as a backup tool.
Mark said,
April 7, 2008 @ 4:32 pm
If you don’t give the ability to change the ACL, then what’s the purpose of compatibility bucket?
John said,
April 7, 2008 @ 8:01 pm
Didn’t see a response to August’s comment above:
Quote: I’d also love it if JD could operate in simple mode. No file cache, no cached metadata or file names. Users could just browse the list of files with no auto download or background anything. Only when they went to copy the file would a nice message come up saying file transfer or copying with a completion indicator.
I know you are changing how 2.0 will deal with caches. Will simple mode as August describes be an option? I have lots of small files in a bucket that current is 10gb large. I have to delete the cache every time I finish a backup or JD takes forever to start the next time.
Thanks for your hard work on 2.0. Really looking forward to it.
Jungle Dave said,
April 7, 2008 @ 8:28 pm
We’ve fixed the performance issue with large caches and lots of directories. As for the “simple” mode, disabling cache entirely would make it far to slow and expensive to be useful. The “auto-download” is just the file preview behavior in Finder/Explorer. You can avoid this by using the My Jungle Disk web folder on Windows, or the built-in restore dialog to browse/restore files.
Damien said,
April 8, 2008 @ 4:18 pm
Sounds good. Please clean up the Mac interface. There are some beautiful coca apps around these days and JD could be one of them.
Jungle Dave said,
April 8, 2008 @ 4:22 pm
Jungle Disk looks quite a bit nicer on the Mac (and all platforms) with the new version. It may not look quite as “sexy” as some Mac-only applications, but that’s the trade-off you make for getting software that works the same way with the same set of features on 3 platforms. I’m sure most of our Mac users would prefer multi-platform support over a super sexy Mac-only user interface
Drew Loika said,
April 8, 2008 @ 5:18 pm
Exciting! The JD team is really setting a good example by incorporating so much user feedback as product development moves forward. I’m already a big fan of JD, but these new features are great and should make it an easy sell to a lot more people.
I’m sure there’s a better place to say this, but I worry when I’m backing up my 80 gigs or so that JD is really done when it says it’s done. Some sort of user-initiated confirmation that such and such directories are actually mirrored in these locations would really make me feel better.
Anyway, thanks for all the work so far, I can’t wait for the new release!
Jungle Dave said,
April 10, 2008 @ 9:21 am
@Mark – compatible buckets allow you to share your data between different S3 tools, and to make it public if you change your ACLs using one of those tools. We won’t restrict you from changing the ACLs and will probably even provide instructions to do so, we just don’t want to make it so simple that users start accidentally making their personal data public.
beq said,
April 13, 2008 @ 3:04 am
Will JD 2.0 include native filesystem support (for Windows)? I’m hoping it will also coincide with the option to run as a service for better reliability…
Jungle Dave said,
April 13, 2008 @ 8:43 am
Both those will be coming in the 2.0 timeframe but not in the first release.
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Steve said,
April 19, 2008 @ 11:42 pm
I just hope to see the ability to have email notifications sent out on backups done, its the main thing someone like myself needs to keep tabs on my customers computers.
IndigoHomme said,
May 21, 2008 @ 6:51 pm
Will 2.0 have “server mode” backup whereby it will operate as a daemon on OS X so that I don’t have to leave the backup machine logged-in?
Jungle Dave said,
May 21, 2008 @ 7:05 pm
@Indigo – Not in the initial release, but we are planning on adding that later.
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