Tag: JUNGLEDISK

A while back, we asked for reader feedback for off-site backup solutions. Unsurprisingly, many of you said you used Jungle Disk which is a disk-based utility that allows for easy backup to Amazon's S3 storage platform. S3 is inexpensive, efficient and Amazon's servers are fast, which makes it a great tool to use for either server or local drive backups. However, if you don't want to stare at ...

Amazon S3, the online storage service from the mega-retailer, has been on my radar for a couple of months, but unless I'm mistaken, JungleDisk is the first desktop-based (rather than web-based) app that takes advantage of the service. Basically, JungleDisk integrates S3 storage with Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux allowing you to manage files stored on the service as though they were ordinary files on ...