[aklug] Re: Amazon + Jungle Disk = awesome off site storage

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Damien Hull wrote:

> I'm sure I mentioned this before. One more time won't hurt. For great off site storage try jungle disk.
> http://www.jungledisk.com/
>
> It works with Linux and costs $0.15 per gigabyte. You also need to pay for the jungle disk software. That doesn't cost much. I got it with the rsyinc option. I think that's an extra $1 a month or something like that.
>
> I started an rsync backup process yesterday afternoon. It's still going as I type. I'm guessing at least 14 gigabytes of data will be sent to Amazon. I haven't done this in a while and I'm sure there are things I don't need backed up. I plan to run this once a week.
>
> At the moment jungle disk is only installed on my data storage server. Plan to install it on the workstation and laptop soon. Maybe this Friday night...
>
> Oh, any bets on how long it will take to backup my data? Current speed is about 120 kilobytes/sec...
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$0.15 a Gigabyte! And it works in Linux! And it has a command-line only
version! And it has a 64-bit software version!

(Christopher stops typing for a few minutes while his co-worker performs
CPR.)

So, what's the catch? Do you have to give up your first-born or something?

So you had to pay extra for rsync option? Otherwise does it use webdav, or
what?

And that should be about 122339 seconds, or about 34 hours, right? (Didn't
double check that...)

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