We’d like to thank all of the Jungle Disk users who have been helping us test the new releases. Since the first set of betas we’ve found and fixed a number of issues, improved performance across the board, and even found time to implement some additional features. Today we’re releasing an updated set of beta releases (2.94a) for all 3 products.
In this beta the Server Edition gains the ability to run pre and post backup scripts, allowing server administrators to customize their backups and integrate with other tools such as mysqldump. For the full list of fixes and features, please see the release notes for the Server Edition or Desktop/Workgroup Editions. Some of the key fixes and features are listed below:
- Added ability to run pre/post backup scripts (Server Edition)
- Added support for connecting to Cloud Files over Service Net for Rackspace datacenter customers (Server Edition)
- Significantly improved performance of Remote Management client (Server Edition)
- Sync now puts files in the Trash if possible instead of immediately deleting them
- Improved ability to restart sync operations after a machine wakes from a sleep state
- Sync Pause now stops both download and upload operations
- Wildcard exclusions in Sync now work properly
- The configuration dialog will display better on small screens like netbooks
- Fixed several misc crashes and performance issues
You can download the new beta release below:
- Jungle Disk Desktop Edition Beta Download
- Jungle Disk Workgroup Edition Beta Download
- Jungle Disk Server Edition Beta Download
We’ll also be turning on automatic updates for beta customers today (this will only offer the update to customers already running a beta version).
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Tyler F said,
October 24, 2009 @ 12:15 pm
Where do we report bugs with JungleDisk Beta’s? A standard support ticket?
This morning my computer woke to do its scheduled JD backup and then went back to sleep. I just woke it up a few hours later and the JungleDiskMonitor had two instances in memory, one as me and one as SYSTEM, and the process in my context was going crazy with CPU and memory. The SYSTEM one was “only” using about 22% CPU (still weird and high) but held memory steady at about 19,336 K. The one running in my users context was chewing 31% CPU and I killed both of them when it reached 500,000 K memory with no end in sight. It was growing by several thousand K every couple seconds. Opening the monitor showed no activity happening. The backup was done, I don’t have any drives mounted, and no syncs set up yet.
Killing both processes, re-launching the JD Monitor, and then starting the JD service results in normal CPU activity. As in, right now neither of them are doing anything at all.
Ever since getting the first beta I have had odd behavior when waking from sleep. My backup didn’t even run yesterday because of multiple errors in the activity viewer (I didn’t keep the log). I’ve had to open Services and start or restart the Jungle Disk Service 3 or 4 times since the first beta, and I’ve never had to do that before. Every time I can recall, it’s been after waking from sleep. I’ll open the JD Monitor settings and it won’t have any of my settings displayed. Restarting the JD service fixes that.
I’m running Vista 64 Home Premium on a C2D E8400 with 4 GB RAM. From my perspective, the odd behavior I am seeing is somehow related to sleep and/or the JD Service crapping out.
Scott H. said,
October 25, 2009 @ 9:06 pm
V2.94a Desktop just freaked out and the JD Monitor began consuming 99% CPU on my XP SP3 notebook. Closing the monitor calmed it down. Posting more info to support and in the beta forum.
Razvan said,
October 27, 2009 @ 12:25 pm
On OS X 10.5 at least, the sync mechanism seems to have problems. It cannot sync properly an SVN tree (OK, some tens of thousands of small files can create issues), but also syncing a folder with a thousand or so pictures in it shows in the Activity Monitor as “5494 sec elapsed” and only part of the files are online (as far as I can see using the WebDAV mounted jungledisk folder in Finder). Overall buggy and I wouldn’t trust it much yet. Plus, we need to see at a glance which folders on the local disk are in the sync scheme and when a file is online – hopefully it is something you guys are considering. Further on, differential / delta versions of a file is something we still dream of…
On the good side, the new backup system seems to work perfectly.
Thank you for the big step forward.
Jungle Dave said,
October 27, 2009 @ 1:34 pm
The sync system should work fine with big folders, but it will take a while to get everything up and in-sync. Unfortunately the icon support for Finder on OSX is not as good as what we do in Windows to show Sync status, due to changes they made in 10.6 that make it difficult or impossible to badge files properly.
Jimmy C said,
October 28, 2009 @ 12:24 am
Everything works great until I tried to configure the new backup vault thing, everything work until when I tried to import a backup. after I finish making a change, the app will beachball for a minute (OSX 10.5.8) and then an error:
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Jungle Disk Workgroup is unable to communicate with the service. Please ensure that the service is running.
xServiceTransport – Transport error during mgr.Recofigure
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I finally figure out I only have to kill the “JungleDiskWorkgr” (user: root) process, and JD will reconnect everything.
But now I can not save any configuration changes any more (i.e. stuck with whatever setting I have for now).
What can I do now?
Jeremy said,
October 28, 2009 @ 10:31 am
Wow, this is amazing.
Not having any issues that I have seen and love how well it is working.
I have been testing this with all sort of folders many I update often on work and home machine.
Very happy! Good job!!!
Jungle Dave said,
October 28, 2009 @ 10:31 am
@Jimmy – please post to our support forums. We’ll get an engineer to work with you on fixing the issue.
http://support.jungledisk.com/forums/76920/entries
Martijn said,
October 28, 2009 @ 7:23 pm
Good job JD, the new engine and features of the Desktop and Server betas have really impressed me, and most of the beta issues that bothered me are fixed in these updated versions.
I’ve been using the Desktop version for years, and the new engine performs much better. Also installed the Server edition on several servers, where I was using the Desktop version previously. The remote GUI is a good idea and the de-duplication and compression have reduced our backup volume enormously.
Jim said,
November 6, 2009 @ 12:16 am
I seriously hope your not planning on going with the horrendous icon / image in this new beta. Those panels with the red panel on bottom look awful. I liked the patterned disk icon way better.
Tulpe said,
November 6, 2009 @ 2:14 am
Like Jim said, the new icon is really fugly!
Then my sync is stuck in a loop repeating the following errors:
Sync: Could not sync “C:\sync\Dev\js_sinus\sinus-4283b15e04a412ed985a10b49e7161fa.html”. It may be open in another program.
Exception Code: xHTTPBadResult (9)
Sync: Retrying sync for “C:\sync\Dev\js_sinus\sinus-4283b15e04a412ed985a10b49e7161fa.html”
Exception Code: xHTTPBadResult (9)
Jungle Marc said,
November 6, 2009 @ 6:14 pm
@Tulpe – please post to our support forum (http://support.jungledisk.com/forums/76920/entries) and we’ll see if we can determine the issue.