Jungle Disk takes a different approach to backup. Rather than offering a finite or unlimited amount of data storage for a set fee per month, it charges you per month for the data you're backing up. You're billed $2.00 (£1.30), plus $0.15 (10 pence) per gigabyte stored, per month. So if you back up 10GB of data, you'll pay a total of roughly £2.30 a month.
But in addition, you can upload, access, manage and download everything stored online, from any number of computers on the planet, across Mac, Linux and Windows platforms. This is a huge bonus, as it essentially provides a virtual drop box in the cloud, which you can access anywhere, without charging you for space you don't use.
Desktop software for all platforms is provided, and you can schedule it to automatically backup files and folders on your computer. Or you can just manually drag and drop files into your virtual disk drive. All data is encrypted with a 256-bit AES encryption key, and stored in either Amazon S3's or RackSpace's data centres.
How good is it?
Jungle Disk is one of our favourite backup platforms, and gave great results. Uploads and downloads were insanely fast -- the fastest we've ever used -- with upload speeds hitting 6MBps on some occasions. The Web-based interface is excellent too, giving you access to all your files, which can be downloaded like any other file hosted on the Internet (though we'd love to see a 'Zip these files' option for downloading multiple files as a single zipped directory).
If you're backing up hundreds of gigabytes of data from a single machine, however, JungleDisk can be an expensive option compared to Mozy. Mozy will charge you the same per month for backing up 1GB of data or 500GB of data, whereas JungleDisk would charge roughly £50 per month for backing up 500GB.
The ideal user?
Someone who uses a number of machines and wants the freedom to store as much or as little as they like, and not be charged for storage they're not using.
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Anonymous 7 June, 2011 07:17
First, I disagree with some of the points, Cloud is the future and by cloud I mean real cloud, like Amazon, MS, Rackspace, not proprietary storage, we all do remember carbonite lost their data in 2009 and blamed it on hardware, Also its useless to use a backup without blocklevel technology, like backing up your PST file, next time I only want to backup the changes! not the whole file, like most application do!, also I want dedupe technology! and complete cloud management so I can install it and control everything from the cloud, also it will be great to have disaster recovery, I tested most software's in the market, and most of them are big joke when it comes to business and real backup, and performance, the only 2 I found worth keep testing on my 72 business laptops are Mozy and Timeline Cloud, but Timeline Cloud won cuz of using Amazon S3 and Complete cloud disaster recovery