We’re starting to dig in on the next major release of Jungle Disk, but before we got too far we wanted to release an update with the latest improvements and fixes. Jungle Disk 2.61 is a minor update that includes a number of fixes for issues users have encountered in 2.60c. We’d like to thank the users who helped bring these issues to our attention.
You can download the new version using the links below. We will enable the automatic update feature on Wednesday if you’d prefer to update that way instead.
A list of the improvements and fixes in this release is below.
- Package attribute backed up and restored on Mac using automatic backup
- Improved change detection with multiple computers on the same network drive
- Improved startup times in Windows
- Changed default setting for file versioning to ‘all files’ vs. ‘backup files only’
- Reduced the number of Growl notifications in Mac
- Fixed upgrade issues in Windows related to Jungle Disk service
- Fixed issues with connecting to Windows UNC shares
- Fixed backup configuration dialog in Linux not searching for files beyond first folder
- Fixed issue with Linux startup via init.d
- Fixed case sensitivity issues when using the Network Drive option
- Fixed connection issue when switching between users in Windows
- Fixed issue where leading “*” in exclusions would omit root files
- Fixed Windows search issue in Vista
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Max Battcher said,
April 28, 2009 @ 10:13 pm
Since you’ve added Growl notifications, are you planning to support libnotify notifications on Unix?
Also, I’ve been using Snarl (http://www.fullphat.net/index.php), which is one of a couple of Growl-like tools for Windows, and currently I think the furthest along in terms of application support. Would Snarl support be a possibility as well?
Jungle Dave said,
April 29, 2009 @ 10:17 am
We’ll consider notification mechanisms on other platforms if there is sufficient support/demand.
Mikel Beck said,
April 29, 2009 @ 3:42 pm
“Fixed issue with Linux startup via init.d”
What was this issue?
Jungle Dave said,
April 29, 2009 @ 5:09 pm
@Mikel – if your network wasn’t up yet, it would just exit. Now it waits for the network to come up.
scott said,
April 30, 2009 @ 7:44 pm
It would be nice if all these upgrades didn’t require a reboot. We’re using it on production servers and we have to haul someone out of bed in the middle of the night because of the reboot.
Jungle Dave said,
April 30, 2009 @ 9:13 pm
@scott – A reboot is only actually required if you’re using the network drive feature, which uses a filesystem driver thus requires a reboot to update (unfortunately). If you’re just doing automatic backup, no reboot is required.
Gary said,
May 1, 2009 @ 10:09 am
Any news or plans for support for files > than 5GB?
Jungle Dave said,
May 1, 2009 @ 10:06 pm
@Gary – that’s being looked at on the roadmap
Again - kill the reboot said,
May 2, 2009 @ 4:15 pm
Having to reboot is really annoying for the shared drive feature. Please figure out a way to not do it.
Chee said,
May 7, 2009 @ 2:26 pm
2.61a seems to be much slower than 2.60a, i.e. delay when accessing files
I noticed the default J: drive has been switched to “Network Drives” group in Windows XP instead of the “Devices with Removable Storage” group. Same as in 2.10 when file access from S3 were very slow.
What gives?
Ross said,
May 7, 2009 @ 5:13 pm
A DropBox-like feature (like in the program DropBox: getdropbox.com) would be simple to implement, and a good PR gimmick, since S3 is cheaper than DropBox’s pricing scheme.
Jane said,
May 8, 2009 @ 11:55 am
Jungle Disk sounds great but it lacks some important features for me, since I mostly backup external HDD, network drives and USB drives from both my Pc and Mac. Most providers don’t have these features but this wasn’t a problem for SafeCopy (www.safecopybackup.com). It allows me to do the above features plus I can share the same account for both my Mac and Pc. I’m very happy with it and it’s worth checking out.
Olivier said,
May 21, 2009 @ 7:58 am
According to one of your competitor, Cloud Files is really slow.
Did you perform some tests lately?
http://content.theplanet.com/documents/whitepapers/CloudStoragePerfomance_TechPaper.pdf
Jungle Dave said,
May 21, 2009 @ 8:19 am
@Olivier – Those tests don’t reflect realistic conditions for Jungle Disk, as they are performed with near-local servers with high-speed connections. For most Jungle Disk users, their local connection speed and overall latency to the cloud storage service will be the determining factor in speed. Some of our users report S3 is faster while others report Cloud Files is better for them. In most cases it’s not a huge difference.
Olivier said,
May 21, 2009 @ 8:51 am
Thank you for your quick reply Dave. What about businesses that backup their servers connected to a 100Mbit link?
Jungle Dave said,
May 21, 2009 @ 1:49 pm
@Olivier – After talking with the cloud files team, it sounds like the testing methodology they used wasn’t sound, when tested with a proper upload script it was significantly faster. Within the Rackspace networks we regularly see uploads to Cloud Files at 80+mbps
Khürt Williams said,
May 22, 2009 @ 6:19 am
@Scott, your admins are doing software updates of production servers without proper planning?
Khürt Williams said,
May 22, 2009 @ 6:25 am
How should a business plan accordingly if the Amazon S3 or Cloud Files service becomes unavailable? Last July 20, Amazon S3 went down for seven hours – the service’s second outage in 2008. What should my business continuity plan be like if or when my data goes offline, become corrupted, or destroyed?
Jungle Dave said,
May 22, 2009 @ 9:09 am
@Khürt – While outages and downtime are not unheard of with these services, they are very rare and reliability continues to improve. They also take extreme measures for to protect against corruption or data loss and to my knowledge have never suffered a loss event.
That said, for users with high concerns about availability and reliability we always recommend users keep a second local backup copy of any data.
Olivier said,
June 5, 2009 @ 4:58 pm
@Jungle Dave – Thanks for your comments. I am now a customer and can’t wait for you to include the sync feature.
pete said,
June 9, 2009 @ 3:00 pm
Yeah, I’m waiting for the sync feature too.
I could stop using LiveSync.
Also I really appreciate the security mechanisms of JungleDisk.
You guys really rock!!!
Filip said,
July 21, 2009 @ 9:59 am
Is there any information the timing of that next major release?
Will it include the sync feature?
Jungle Dave said,
July 21, 2009 @ 10:24 am
We don’t have specific timing to announce right now, but the next major release will include some of the top requested new features.
william said,
August 20, 2009 @ 7:05 pm
I would love to see Snarl support in windows. I would appreciate it greatly if you could add this.
Rishi said,
August 21, 2009 @ 5:09 pm
Jungle Dave, will the next release of the Workgroup edition support Compatibility mode?
J.R. Gunderson said,
October 6, 2009 @ 10:28 am
Search would be extremely useful for us.
And, while we have redundancy plan for the internet at our office, it’s hard to tell when the connection will lag or drop unexpectedly — during a file transfer or just when viewing our online disk… this usually locks osx Finder for me, and creates trouble with any application that has the file open.
Could you consider a storage option that blends the Dropbox model (getdropbox.com) …?
And store some files locally, while letting users select specific folders to sync.
This would allow some search functionality, whereas you could search folders that are stored locally, and would reduce excessive lags when browsing project folders on the online disk.
We rely on JungleDisk, and any changes here would really brighten our day! : )
Thanks –
Diedre Braverman said,
November 3, 2009 @ 12:20 am
I am in desperate need of search functionality. I’m on Mac Snow Leopard. While I wait for Spotlight to find it or for Jungle Disk to program it, are there any third-party solutions out there? I’d like my J drive indexed and searchable (I don’t keep a local copy on my desktop).
Also, would like a one-step back-up of my J files to a local external hard-drive.