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

[Judi Sohn]

If you drag-copy from your hard drive to the JD disk, then you will
have to have a cache and the space. However, if you use JD's built-in
backup utility you don't need the cache and therefore your S3 disk can
be much larger than your hard drive. Was that what you were asking?

On Feb 13, 2008 9:19 PM, Jamie Kahn Genet <lists at wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:
> Do I need to have the same space as the JD drive available on my Mac?
> Cause I'm wanting to backup about 200GB of data to begin with (then just
> a trickle every day) and I can't afford that space to mount a drive.
>
> TIA,
>  Jamie Kahn Genet
>
>
> Judi Sohn <judisohn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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