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Jungle Disk is an online backup tool that stores its data in Amazon S3 or Rackspace Cloud Files.

Jungle Disk is an online backup tool that stores its data in Amazon S3 or Rackspace Cloud Files. It was highlighted by Amazon as one of the earliest S3 clients The basic Jungle Disk software is sold as a monthly subscription model, and the customer is billed directly by Amazon for data storage and transfer.

Jungle Disk can periodically back up selected files or folders. It provides a local webdav server and a local web interface that synchronize to the user's S3/Cloud Files account, optionally encrypting backed up data on the client side. For a monthly fee, the company will provide a hosted web interface and more advanced backup functionality.

Jungle Disk supports Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

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Cloud based backup solutions based on open standards?

I am looking for a solution to backup and consolidate important media from a couple Windows laptops and Mac laptop. I would like a solutions that based on open standards, so my data isn't trapped by proprietary formats and proprietary protocols. I…
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Is it practical to use JungleDisk as a music library?

My hard drives have crashed too many times for me to want to continue keeping my music library at home, so I want to put it on JungleDisk. I have an account, I have the mp3s, but in terms of bandwidth is that practical? I don't see myself…
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Can I prevent Jungle Disk's "Compressing Backup Database" process from spiking my CPU?

Every time my scheduled backup runs, it spikes my CPU usage up to 100%, literally freezing everything else I'm doing. It is only during the 'Compressing Backup Database' part of the backup process that the CPU usage is like this. Is there some way…
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How can I prevent JungleDisk/MacOS X (10.6) creating a local volume for a removed external drive?

Ok, here is situation: I use JungleDisk to sync an online folder on to a external drive connected to my Mac. If I right click Finder, click Go to Folder... then type /Volumes/ I see the drive linked here. Once I remove the external drive, an actual…
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Jungledisk does not restore my files. How can this be fixed?

I backup my files with Jungledisk for many years now, my backup is on Amazon S3 and is ~600 GB in size. Unluckily there came the time when I need to restore some files (my email files got damaged). When I do restore in Jungledisk, I get these errors…
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Can I convert a Jungle Disk 2.0 bucket to a "compatible" bucket?

I have some data in a Jungle Disk 2.0 bucket on Amazon S3. It seems like the data in this bucket cannot be accessed via Amazon's own web interface to S3 - at least not very conveniently (the data is there, but the file names and directory structure…
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Jungledisk and xLetterCaseConflict

I've been using Jungledisk desktop edition successfully for years now to sync between several Ubuntu and Windows machines, but when I started to use it on a Macbook (OS X 10.6.8, case insensitive drive) I get a lot of xLetterCaseConflict…
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How to hide a Jungle Disk drive for a specific users in Windows 8?

This question is related to this question: How to hide drive for specific users in Windows 7? What I'm running into on Windows 8 is different than Windows 7. I'm working with Home editions of Windows. In Windows 7 the Jungle disk (Drive K:) is only…
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Jungledisk: cause directory/files to be cached

I'm trying to cause a directory structure stored in JungleDisk (running OSX) to be pulled into the local cached. When I try to use the command line, the directories that are not already in the cache report as "No such file or directory" so it…
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