Yesterday we announced the new Jungle Disk Server Edition. Today we want to show it to you. A free beta version of the Jungle Disk Server Edition is now available for download. The software will be free to use until at least 30 days past the final version’s release date giving you plenty of time to try it out and decide if it works for you (and hopefully give us some feedback in the process). Note that normal cloud storage fees still apply.
To get started, please read the Release Notes, which includes information about the Server Edition as well as installation instructions. We don’t have a full manual available but the software should be familiar to existing Jungle Disk users.
You will need a license key for each server you plan to install the software on. You can get a license key from this link. If you need multiple keys, just use the link again. License keys are visible on the Jungle Disk Subscriptions & Purchases page. You may be asked to provide payment information, which will be used for your cloud storage fees.
Once you’ve signed up for a license key, you can download the software. We’ve got 32 and 64-bit versions for Windows, and on Linux we have packages for the most popular distributions as well as our standard tar package.
Note that there are two parts to the software. The Server Edition Software runs on your server machine, while the Server Edition Management Client runs on your desktop and is used to manage your servers. You will need to download both parts, depending on which operating system your server and desktop run. Any platform of the management client can be used to manage the Server Edition.
Please post questions, comments, or support requests to the Server Edition Beta Forum. You may want to review the existing posts if you have trouble in case it’s an issue that another user has encountered already.
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Greg M. Smith said,
October 6, 2009 @ 5:05 pm
Absolutely Awesome! Thanks guys…
Kyle Heon said,
October 6, 2009 @ 8:35 pm
The Server Edition Management Client for Windows is consistently being stopped by my anti-virus (ESET NOD32). Any idea why?
Jungle Dave said,
October 7, 2009 @ 10:10 am
@Kyle – please post more info to our support boards: http://support.jungledisk.com/forums/75446/entries
What do you mean stopped? Does it flag it somehow, does it shut it down?
David said,
October 8, 2009 @ 3:02 am
Hi, what ports does the management console use to access the backup server, I am wanting to access it using SSH port tunneling and so need to know which ports it uses.
thanks.
Jungle Dave said,
October 8, 2009 @ 10:17 am
You shouldn’t need to set up any ports – we do SSL tunneling through a gateway service to avoid the need to reconfigure firewalls for the software.
David Hunsberger said,
October 12, 2009 @ 12:38 pm
This is a terrific concept and is being well implemented in my opinion. I have a suggestion regarding the backup user interface. Right now we can see files by their name and size only. I suggest adding the date last saved, and then making that a new criterion in the backup file selection, to allow including or excluding files by date. I have many folders where I want to back up files that are less than a year old but I don’t need to back up the ones older than that. That would be a big help. – DH
Pritesh said,
October 13, 2009 @ 7:27 am
Any hints on pricing scale when it is released?
thanks!
Jungle Dave said,
October 13, 2009 @ 7:39 am
Please see the previous post where we announce the product for info on pricing.
gavin said,
October 21, 2009 @ 10:40 am
I reckon if you guys added some simple tiering capability to this product then you could clean up in the SME market.
95% of my unstructured data is rarely if ever accessed but nobody will push the delete key on it. Storage tiering is dominated by high end products with high end prices, but all most SMEs want to do is limit the amount of local storage that they need to provide. If i could limit my local storage requirement to the 5% that is frequently accessed then i’d be happy!
If the product stripped and stubbed files from a local drive based on age and access, pushed the content into the cloud and then brought it back again when a user requested the file that would be perfect. You product already caches, but i guess control of what is cached and the ability to mix cloud and local in the same directory location is what would get me excited.
Steven said,
October 22, 2009 @ 5:58 pm
If I am using a current deskop version on a server, can I migrate to the server edition?
Jungle Dave said,
October 22, 2009 @ 6:19 pm
Steven – yes, although you’ll need to re-upload your data as the new Backup Vaults use a different storage format.
Juan Pons said,
November 9, 2009 @ 1:02 pm
Any plans for an OSX version of the server edition?
Jungle Dave said,
November 9, 2009 @ 5:21 pm
@Juan – we’re still gauging interest in that. We’ve had a few people interested so far.
Aaron Moses said,
November 10, 2009 @ 12:12 pm
Also definitely interested in an osx version of the server edition!
Juan Pons said,
November 10, 2009 @ 3:01 pm
Well you can count me in as someone who is VERY interested.
-J
Jamie Sig said,
November 11, 2009 @ 6:20 am
Is this the replacement for WHS?
Jungle Dave said,
November 11, 2009 @ 12:44 pm
No, we’re working on something separately fro WHS.
Cameron said,
November 12, 2009 @ 3:27 pm
I’m interested in what is coming for WHS! I’ve been using Jungle Disk for WHS for over a year now and I like it a lot.