What’s next for Jungle Disk
It’s been a little over a month since the last Jungle Disk Desktop and Workgroup releases, but rest assured we haven’t been idle. The next major release, Jungle Disk 2.50, is deep in development and should be available in beta within the next 4-6 weeks. So what do you have to look forward to in the next release? The biggest change is that we will be offering the ability to run Jungle Disk as a background service on all platforms, which has been a highly requested feature in itself, but will also allow us to implement a number of other great new features. The list below provides a full list of major new features we are targeting:
- Jungle Disk runs as a service, separate from the Monitor user interface
- Automatic backups are performed even when not logged in to the computer
- Wake from sleep for backups will now be available on Mac in addition to Windows
- Backup in-use files feature will work on Vista without UAC constraints
- Easy backup of data for multiple user accounts on the same computer
- Native 64-bit support, which will enable the backup-in use files feature on Vista64
- “Time-machine” style restore interface, allowing to you restore files from a point-in-time view of your backup
- Download resume feature for restoring or copying large files
As you can see we’ve got a lot of great stuff cookin’, with more on tap after 2.50 is released. Stay tuned for more updates as we get closer to release.
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'Techie' Jim said,
September 24, 2008 @ 1:44 pm
Oooooo! Can’t wait to see all the new features in action!
beermaster said,
September 24, 2008 @ 2:36 pm
sounds awesome! keep it up.
Vito Botta said,
September 25, 2008 @ 8:46 am
Dave & Co,
I am so happy to hear about these new features! In particular am looking forward to the 64 bit client with the files in use support for Vista!
Besides all these, when are you guys starting to plan syncing functionalities as well?
I’d love to see some strong sync support in JungleDisk, rather than having to use SugarSync, Dropbox, or Syncplicity for that
Keep up the great work guys
Jungle Dave said,
September 25, 2008 @ 10:08 am
Sync is something we are looking at on the long-term roadmap, although a number of 3rd party sync products work well already with the Jungle Disk network drive.
Andy said,
September 25, 2008 @ 2:06 pm
Looks good - but also *really* looking for a Linux version taht works on the ARM processor architecture so that I can backup directly from my NAS (QNAP 409).
Craig said,
September 25, 2008 @ 4:41 pm
Will these options be available for the reseller edition also?
Great Job - Thanks
Jungle Dave said,
September 25, 2008 @ 5:20 pm
Absolutely, although note that we may not release a beta of the reseller edition, since we don’t really encourage resellers to have their customers run beta software (you’ll certainly be able to test the final version prior to release however).
Stuart Gilberd said,
September 26, 2008 @ 3:20 am
Hopefully the run as a service is optional. The reason I was about to buy Jungledisk rather than use some of the services I’d looked at was because I can choose not to run it all the time.
Tom Clark said,
September 28, 2008 @ 10:42 pm
Awesome news! I can’t wait to have it running as a service on all my client machines!
Andrew Velker said,
September 29, 2008 @ 2:55 pm
man, i cant wait for the background service!!!!
Peter said,
September 29, 2008 @ 10:05 pm
I bought Jungle Disk before I realized it couldn’t be run as a service. I was a little disappointed and felt like I had wasted the money, but seeing the list above makes it all worth it.
Steve McKenna said,
September 30, 2008 @ 8:15 am
What about the WHS version? When will it catch up? Keep the great stuff coming!
Mr Stickley said,
September 30, 2008 @ 5:30 pm
Are the automatic backups incremental?
Jungle Dave said,
September 30, 2008 @ 5:48 pm
Yes, backups have always been incremental, copying only new or changed files.
Rick said,
October 1, 2008 @ 8:23 pm
The feature set looks good - I’m still hoping for the ability to mark files as world readable so I can use JD to manage my web space as well. Currently, I’m still using s3fox, which isn’t as clean of a product (and I’d rather just have one thing installed).
Dean Blackburn said,
October 2, 2008 @ 2:14 am
Great news! Will existing installs auto-update in a way that includes (or even activates) the “as a service” feature? I’m currently setting up all my users with the existing version, but 2.5 is exactly what we need to ditch our old on-site backup software (retrospect) while disturbing users as little as possible.
If there’s any way to notify existing Workgroup customers directly the moment it’s available, please do that… I’ve been stalking/reading the updates fairly regularly, but we’re going to want this release asap.
Thanks!
-deano
aromaboy said,
October 2, 2008 @ 2:43 pm
Download resume was a thoroughly missed feature.
Great!
Mark Chien said,
October 5, 2008 @ 1:03 pm
Although there are several 3rd party sync solutions, I don’t trust any of them. One of the big reasons I’m going with Jungledisk is that I trust Amazon and their host of web services that is powering Jungledisk. I think it’s a huge differentiator.
I simply can’t trust the other 3rd party solutions that claim to store your data securely on their servers. Moreover, if they were to go out of business, I’d be hosed. At least with your service, I know that Amazon will always be around and that I can still access my data even if in the unlikely event that Jungledisk goes away.
Sync and backup go hand in hand when it comes to storage. I really wished Jungledisk offered sync like capabilities. Would make my life much easier and I can use one provider for all my storage needs.
Marc Brooks said,
October 5, 2008 @ 11:04 pm
I too am excited to hear about the upcoming service-based release. I do wonder if the WHS server version is getting any of the work it needs. I still don’t see anything addressing the WHS backup-files and metadata getting backed up (just shared folders, right?) and I would love some degree of speedup on the WHS system.
Jungle Disk » Home Server Plans said,
October 7, 2008 @ 12:26 pm
[…] response to our Jungle Disk 2.50 post, we’ve received a number of questions as to how this affects the Windows Home Server version […]
Thomas N. said,
October 13, 2008 @ 4:51 pm
You might want to take a look at the plans for Fonera 2.0 and its API… Now there’s a platform that might make my current “Debian home server on old PC hardware”-platform obsolete… if equipped with jungledisk.
(See also: Wikipedia article on FON)
Fred said,
October 17, 2008 @ 12:20 am
So will this new version allow copying to a network drive when it is running as a service? I just bought Jungledisk but now I have buyers remorse. I just assumed it worked but now that I have set it all up I realize it doesn’t. I tried the Microsoft executables that allow the application to run as a service but after going through that painful setup it doesn’t appear to create a mapped drive :((
This is a show stopper. I have a scheduled task that runs nightly which copies files over to the network drive. This will NOT work unless it can run as a service without anyone logged in.
Floyd Doughty said,
October 18, 2008 @ 10:10 am
I have several important sparsebundles I use and backup to Jungle Disk. I would strongly encourage support of proper restoration of them in future releases. Thanks for a great product! I use Jungle Disk every day!
Lyle said,
October 22, 2008 @ 6:39 pm
Well, I’ll still reeling from how cool Jungle Disk is, and the whole idea of Amazon’s S3 service (an hour ago I had not heard of either, and I’ve already done my first backup), and now here is more to be amazed at. Nice going! Now I’ve got to tell all my friends…
Kevin said,
October 23, 2008 @ 1:07 pm
Jungle Dave, I just recently saw your message…
September 25, 2008 @ 10:08 am
“Sync is something we are looking at on the long-term roadmap, although a number of 3rd party sync products work well already with the Jungle Disk network drive.”
Which Sync software does Jungle Disk recommend. Our company is very interested in sync’ing while using network drives. This is because some of us will use the local Network Drives on location at the office while other “remote” users would be better to use the jungle disk network drives. This is because our remote users cannot easily connect to our VPN since it becomes extremly slow.
How do I have the LOCAL network drive sync with the Jungle Disk network drive. This will solve all our questions as we are just implementing jungle disk.
Craig said,
October 25, 2008 @ 3:26 pm
How about an iPhone app? I could put my music / videos / data up on Amazon, and access it anytime?
Thanks.
Shafiq said,
October 28, 2008 @ 1:35 am
I second the question about the 3rd party sync products - which ones have been confirmed to work seamlessly with JungleDisk? Which do you recommend?