  StraitShoot Who Loves Ya Baby? - Theo Kojak Premium join:2003-02-08 Clinton, MA
2 edits | reply to Bubba17 Re: Backup Your Data NOW!
I just signed up with JungleDisk and so far so good.. I got "steered" to »jungledisk.com by Bubba1
Thank Bub.. Jim  -- I'm proud to be a troublemaker! America was founded by "troublemakers"!
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  CatLover53 Premium join:2003-05-18 Reynoldsburg, OH
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| reply to Bubba17 Bubba1,
Thank you very much for the suggestion as well as the links. I really appreciate you going the "extra mile" to furnish such complete information.
Hope you had a nice Christmas and best wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year 2008.
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  Bubba17 Less is More Premium join:2006-09-21
| reply to StraitShoot said by StraitShoot :I just signed up with JungleDisk and so far so good.. I got "steered" to » jungledisk.com by Bubba1 Ah, I missed your post here prior ... I just responded, regarding Jungle Disk, in your thread. A good choice you've made too! 
Let's continue our Jungle Disk / Amazon S3 discussion there, ok? -- HN7000s | Horizons 1 (127W) | Gateway: 1110Mhz | Dish: .98m 2 Watt | Pro+
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  Bubba17 Less is More Premium join:2006-09-21
| reply to CatLover53 said by CatLover53 :Thank you very much for the suggestion as well as the links. You're welcome! I appreciate you taking the time to say thanks. 
said by CatLover53 :Hope you had a nice Christmas and best wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year 2008. I wish the very same to you and yours!
Good luck. -- HN7000s | Horizons 1 (127W) | Gateway: 1110Mhz | Dish: .98m 2 Watt | Pro+
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join:2004-12-05 Safety Harbor, FL | reply to Bubba17 Jungle disk looks very interesting. Should also note that it supports mac and Linux also. -- Go Pats! |
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  jaykaykay 4 Ever Young Premium,MVM join:2000-04-13 Scottsdale, AZ 1 edit | reply to exocet_cm If one's business system crashes and there is a need to upload/restore info stored, does JungleDisk allow this and if so, how many times...just once or multiples? |
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  Bubba17 Less is More Premium join:2006-09-21
2 edits | said by jaykaykay :If one's business system crashes and there is a need to upload/restore info stored, does JungleDisk allow this and if so, how many times...just once or multiples? Hi jaykaykay,
Usage of Amazon S3, or any other such online service, wouldn't entail "system" backup (meaning the partition/HD containing the OS .. though it could). It, instead, allows very secure (especially in Amazon S3's case .. not saying others aren't as secure, but Amazon's setup impressed me) backup at a file/folder level.
Any information one deemed important enough to backup can be "restored"/retrieved/downloaded from the backup service, back onto the storers (or any other that was allowed, via the multiple access passwords. Files, if desired, can be "shared" in this manner amongst a group of people) computer as many times as is required by the storer. The number of times you can access your information stored online is completely unlimited, though Amazon S3 does charge for transfer bandwidth. Here's their pricing:
United States Storage $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used
Data Transfer $0.10 per GB - all data transfer in $0.18 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out $0.16 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out $0.13 per GB - data transfer out / month over 50 TB
Requests $0.01 per 1,000 PUT or LIST requests $0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests* * No charge for delete requests
Amazon S3, certainly as presently configured, isn't itself very user friendly (speaking access/manipulation), not really targeting, primarily, the Home PC backup market (they function to fry much larger, corporate, fish).
Jungle Disk, filling the need for easily manipulated access software, is a business enterprise arising from this need for S3 access! Jungle Disk's creators (though I don't exactly know their back-grounds) aren't "working for" Amazon. Jungle Disk is a private business, aside from Amazon, that still works very closely with Amazon, that provides this S3 interface.
It says that S3 is accessible via any WEBDave capable app .. Jungle Disk is one such app that is programmed to facilitate S3 access.
Have I explained this clearly, or is it confusing?
Jungle Disk has a one-time purchase price of $20 .. and, is a lifetime license w/unlimited access to all future updates/upgrades.
I chose S3 because of it's "for use" pricing. With others I was considering, like Carbonite and others, they charge a flat, monthly or yearly, amount for unlimited storage. In Carbonites case it's $50 a year for unlimited. Well, that sounds great and all, but my data I'm interested in backing-up is certainly finite and I'll store it on S3 for far less than $50 a year.  -- HN7000s | Horizons 1 (127W) | Gateway: 1110Mhz | Dish: .98m 2 Watt | Pro+
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  Bubba17 Less is More Premium join:2006-09-21
| reply to brydry said by brydry :Jungle disk looks very interesting. Should also note that it supports mac and Linux also. Yes, it does. Thanks.  -- HN7000s | Horizons 1 (127W) | Gateway: 1110Mhz | Dish: .98m 2 Watt | Pro+
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  jaykaykay 4 Ever Young Premium,MVM join:2000-04-13 Scottsdale, AZ
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| reply to Bubba17 Thank you so much. This is a topic that a friend of mine and I have been discussing of late and Carbonite was the original choice. Then we found that one could only restored 1X which could be a big problem if being used for a business and/or needed more often for whatever the reason. I recommended this person to look at Jungle Disk as a new possibility this AM but then thought I may have been in error for having done so. I will now forward your further info to them to go along with the original email I sent. |
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1 edit | said by jaykaykay :This is a topic that a friend of mine and I have been discussing of late and Carbonite was the original choice. Then we found that one could only restored 1X which could be a big problem if being used for a business and/or needed more often for whatever the reason. Well, I must not understand what you mean then. Because, I cannot imagine that Carbonite would limit people to only a single occasion/occurrence of being able to re-acquire/download their own data.
edit: I apologize, I intended to cover this topic in my prior post.
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  jaykaykay 4 Ever Young Premium,MVM join:2000-04-13 Scottsdale, AZ
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| You understood what I meant, and I couldn't believe that from Carbonite either. However, that is what my friend read somewhere on the site in the small print. It sounds totally weird, but without knowing for sure, I am only repeating what I was told. If anyone knows differently for sure, I would love to know it. |
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  hayc59 VoodooChild Premium join:2001-02-26 David R.I.P.
| reply to exocet_cm what does all think of Genie Backup seems to have a small footprint acronis--122 some odd MB's now that large  »www.genie-soft.com/products/gbm/default.html -- ãrê ¥Øu êxpêriêncêD Microsoft MVP-Windows Security 2007 9/11/01 Never Forget |
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| reply to exocet_cm Does anybody know of a (preferable free) program that does backups in the background that can send to my space on my website? I have a host with a ton of space and transfer available, it would be nice to be able to use this space using a small client program that can be configured to do this. |
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  EvilByDesire Premium join:2002-09-03 Grotto
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| if you have vista ultimate u can have you computer automatically backup ever week or day if you want, heres how to set it up
»www.maximumpcguides.com/schedule···-backup/
ive had mine doing this for a LONG time and its saved me multiple times -- ...Wicked Night Demon... |
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