[X4U] Mozyhome or JungleDisk and S3 with Apple's Backup (or another backup program)?

[Judi Sohn]

I have been using JungleDisk (Plus) ever since I started moving around
a lot so it became inconvenient to backup to an external drive.

I use the JD application itself for the backup. It mounts your S3
store, I believe as a WebDAV server but don't quote me on that. The
icon looks like one. You can navigate around the drive like any
mounted volume, and your backups are real Finder files. That's why I
went with it over Mozy, since Restoring data is as easy as grabbing
files off a mounted drive.

The only limitation I've found is speed, of course. Online backups are
slower, but I was able to transfer around 13 GB of date in less than 3
days. Now that it only transfers data that has changed so on a daily
basis, it's much faster. Oh, and my first Amazon bill? $3.71.

On Feb 12, 2008 9:46 PM, Jamie Kahn Genet <lists at wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:
> Anyone tried either of those? Any other solutions? Opinions? Pros and
> cons? Is Apple's Backup app up to the task if I go with JungleDisk and
> S3? Or what app did you use instead? How does JungleDisk work exactly?
> What sort of drive appears? Limitations?
>
> In case anyone else wonders - Mozy <http://mozy.com/home> is backup with
> online storage included, and JungleDisk <http://www.jungledisk.com/> is
> a way to have Amazon's S3 online storage service appear on the desktop
> as a drive.
>
> Your help is REALLY appreciated as I'm in dire need of a decent online
> backup strategy for a new Mac that will be storing some very important
> data. I'm already using Time Machine with an external HD, but of course
> that does no good if the house burns down.
>
> TIA,
>  Jamie Kahn Genet
>
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