Nobody Listens Anyway » jungle disk http://www.justinball.com Life is an optimization issue Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:47:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha Amazon S3, Jungle Disk and the new way to backup http://www.justinball.com/2008/09/30/amazon-s3-jungle-disk-and-the-new-way-to-backup/ http://www.justinball.com/2008/09/30/amazon-s3-jungle-disk-and-the-new-way-to-backup/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:39:33 +0000 Justin Ball http://www.justinball.com/?p=777 Not long ago I wrote a rather unflattering review of Mozy. I feel bad in a way because I still believe that the concept is good. I haven't played with the software recently but I am guessing that my voice was loud enough to influence significant change.

I am fine with that.

There are a number of other companies that offer similar services. However, at the end of the day I think the simple solution is the one I will go with. In fact I went with it. It took me 15 minutes to setup one night and it now costs me literally pennies to backup my data.

Step One:
Download Jungle Disk. This nice little app makes it simple to send files to S3 and it is cheap - $20.

Step Two:
Get a key from Amazon. They'll want your credit card.

Step Three:
Tell jungle disk to automatically backup specific files to amazon.

The cool thing is that Jungle Disk is easy to use and will walk you through getting a key and setting up your backups. It also won't fill your temp drive with random crap.

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