S3, JungleDisk, and where did I put my tape drive?

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Aug. 9th, 2006 | 05:29 pm

Every so often I find companies who I think get it. A couple of days ago while researching Amazon's S3 technology I came across the company JungleDisk.

What do they do? They wrap a backup service/webdisk around Amazon's S3 service. Amazon provides the disk storage, and Jungle Disk provides an interface. I would suspect that Jungle Disk is no more then a garage setup for a company (much like all of the book resellers I see making money off selling used books on the site). I've been considering buying a .MAC account since I am a bit paranoid about backups, but at the price per gig, JungleDisk would make a lot more sense.

This is not the only S3 project/business I have found. I had been watching the work [info]brad had been doing on his S3 tool, but since Jungle Disk is using a webdav interface it would be much easier to integrate with it for me (though for database backups it might be a bit trickier with my current method of doing backups).

Pretty neat stuff.

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Mark Atwood

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from: [info]fallenpegasus
date: Aug. 11th, 2006 12:30 am (UTC)
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What I would like to see would be a linux daemon, WinNT service, and MacOS service that speak WebDAV on one side and out to S3 on the other. Then I could do it myself, rather than trust my data to two someones.

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from: [info]gsjtejyu
date: Jun. 21st, 2009 11:14 am (UTC)
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I think it is a good way to get into the consumer space, I’ve told a lot of my friends to use JungleDisk to back up their files, with the obvious caveat to encrypt sensitive information.

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