Comments on: Cloud Files support coming soon!

By: John Mark Mitchell

John Mark Mitchell — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:39:21 +0000

@Jungle Dave: I am actively looking for a product that would handle the moving a specific directory of files (each < 2 GB) out to S3 that need to be publicly accessible. They would eventually be requested by the public through CloudFront. Your server level application seems to fit my needs except that JD does not support setting the access control on file to "public."

I am understanding that you are working on supporting this functionality? When do you expect this product to be available?

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:54:32 +0000

Ditto on the desire for local backup option. What you currently have is great, but you’re missing a key function. I’m shopping around and that is important. If you guys had this I’d already be a user.

By: Chad

Chad — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:36:48 +0000

I would also be very interested in local backup options as well. I am a home user with 50GB being backed up to S3 using Jungle Disk. I also have roughly 5TB that I backup locally using SyncBackSE. I much prefer the backup/restore interface of Jungle Disk and would love to be able to use it to backup to multiple local drives as well. For example, I would like to mirror each drive (with versions) to a local drive and an have an off-site backup of truly important files. This would make restorations much easier as well since I wouldn’t be digging through the version history in two different programs trying to decide which one I want to restore.

Please consider this for the near future as I think it would help a lot of people accomplish what they need.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:22:46 +0000

I like the idea, but will it come to the WHS version?

By: BobJ

BobJ — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:26:32 +0000

if one starts an account is there a way to speed up the initial backup by sending a had drive or tape?

By: Will

Will — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:26:41 +0000

@Jungle Dave -

I’m anxiously awaiting Mosso support. When’s it gonna release? Been kept in anticipation for a few months now

By: David McGregor

David McGregor — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:48:49 +0000

@Jungle Dave: Hi, I’d also like to request the option to do a local backup as I currently use two backup programs (including jungledisk) as well.

By: Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:50:40 +0000

@Jungle Dave: This is great news, but similar to Jon Tara, I’d like to request FTP and network drive support. For example, at work I currently use BeyondCompare to backup workstations to the server, and then JD to backup the server to S3. I’d switch to JD for Workgroups if I could use JD to backup to a network share in addition to S3.

Similarly, at home I backup locally to an NAS device (using GoodSync), and to S3 for redundancy/offsite. I’d rather not use two programs, and it would be great to have changed/deleted files backup up locally, too. I also backup some files to an FTP server because I have 50GB unused FTP space, so it saves my S3 bill. Again, I’d love to use JD to do this, but can’t.

By: Jungle Dave

Jungle Dave — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:20:49 +0000

@Jon – If there was sufficient demand for adding local backup as well we might consider it, but to date we have gotten very few requests in that area.
On the otherhand, offline support for the virtual disk as well as two-way sync are features we’ve gotten many requests for and are considering adding in a future release.
Jungle Disk isn’t a static product – it will continue to grow based on user feedback, and we appreciate your insight.

By: Jon Tara

Jon Tara — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:43:10 +0000

Jungle Dave said,
February 27, 2009 @ 3:44 pm

“The Jungle Disk virtual drive is already kept in sync between multiple computers. Note that it doesn’t sync copies of the files to your local drive like those other products, it’s a true virtual drive.”

Another example of tunnel-vision thinking. How about notebooks? How about notebooks when you are off the net? How about notebooks when you’re on the net but in a particular place where you are saddled with a slow connection?

How hard would it be to provide an option? Sync or virtual? (Or cached).