Leopard's built in Time Machine does the same thing - mscottsimon

Two reasons. First, Time Capsule isn't going to pay for itself in a year at $.15/GB. Second, if you have a house fire then Time Capsule is about as useless as it gets for data retrieval. An offsite copy in a different city is what you are paying for here.

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Sunday, June 01 2008 @ 05:59 AM PDT

Leopard's built in Time Machine does the same thing - pfworks

Agreed. Off-site, good... I have used this before to pick up files that I backed up on one machine, and suddenly want again while I am away from home.

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Monday, July 07 2008 @ 05:47 PM PDT

Leopard's built in Time Machine does the same thing - ylon

Is this not 15¢ flat fee for upload, not monthly? Also, how much would a recovery be per GB?

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Wednesday, August 06 2008 @ 12:56 PM PDT

Leopard's built in Time Machine does the same thing - drc

The 15 cents is the monthly cost to store 1 GB on S3. The price/GB drops if you have more than 50 TB stored.
The price to upload to S3 is 10 cents per gig transferred.
The price to download (retrieve) your data is 17 cents/GB.

Full pricing posted at http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pricing

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Saturday, October 25 2008 @ 12:20 PM PDT

Leopard's built in Time Machine does the same thing - Evanitude

This is an attempt to address you abject befuddlement and disbelief someone would use Jungledisk to store data versus an onsite hard disk such as Time Capsule.

Using JungleDisk is a wise move that is attributable to subjective factors, such someone's personality and financial resources; the value of the person's data to them; and, objective data, i.e., facts.

Some people are obsessive and compulsive and need the feeling of security that an offsite backup service offers. These same people, or even causal types may have data, such as photos of their children, that are of such incalculable value that one level of backup is unacceptable. These are just but a couple of subjective reasons to pay for a service such as JungleDisk. The are an abundance of other reasons.

Consumer-grade hard disks will fail approximately 15% of the time within 3 years. This never happened to me. However, despite having a lighting rod, lightning stuck near my basement home office, blew out my surge suppressor, and destroyed my backup disk beyond a professional service's ability to recover its data. These are examples of a factual, medium-likelihood instance of possible failure and resultant data loss, and a factual rare-likelihood drive failure with data loss. Drives fail, and even when the data is recoverable, it's usually very inconvenient (and sometimes costly) to get it back. So these are some psychological and factual motivations to use an offline data-storage service such as JungleDisk. Now what about these services generally and JungleDisk particularly that make them desirable?

Services like JungleDisk are virtually 100% safe when it comes to data security/integrity. Their servers are kept in controlled, fireproof environments at multiple locations. So even if someone dropped a nuclear weapon one site, your data would be safe.

As to JungleDisk in particular: among the many offsite services out there, and I have sampled a few, it is probably the cheapest one with the most straightforward plan. Moreover, the backup software is easy to use. And if you don't want to use it, like a hard disk or MobileMe, it mounts on the desktop and you can drop and drop files to or from it.

I hope that the above explanation make it at least somewhat understandable why someone would use JungleDisk to backup or store their data.

Best,
Dr. Evan Stark PhD

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Monday, November 24 2008 @ 12:53 PM PST

Leopard's built in Time Machine does the same thing - Evanitude

This is an attempt to address you abject befuddlement and disbelief someone would use Jungledisk to store data versus an onsite hard disk such as Time Capsule.

Using JungleDisk is a wise move that is attributable to subjective factors, such someone's personality and financial resources; the value of the person's data to them; and, objective data, i.e., facts.

Some people are obsessive and compulsive and need the feeling of security that an offsite backup service offers. These same people, or even causal types may have data, such as photos of their children, that are of such incalculable value that one level of backup is unacceptable. These are just but a couple of subjective reasons to pay for a service such as JungleDisk. The are an abundance of other reasons.

Consumer-grade hard disks will fail approximately 15% of the time within 3 years. This never happened to me. However, despite having a lighting rod, lightning stuck near my basement home office, blew out my surge suppressor, and destroyed my backup disk beyond a professional service's ability to recover its data. These are examples of a factual, medium-likelihood instance of possible failure and resultant data loss, and a factual rare-likelihood drive failure with data loss. Drives fail, and even when the data is recoverable, it's usually very inconvenient (and sometimes costly) to get it back. So these are some psychological and factual motivations to use an offline data-storage service such as JungleDisk. Now what about these services generally and JungleDisk particularly that make them desirable?

Services like JungleDisk are virtually 100% safe when it comes to data security/integrity. Their servers are kept in controlled, fireproof environments at multiple locations. So even if someone dropped a nuclear weapon one site, your data would be safe.

As to JungleDisk in particular: among the many offsite services out there, and I have sampled a few, it is probably the cheapest one with the most straightforward plan. Moreover, the backup software is easy to use. And if you don't want to use it, like a hard disk or MobileMe, it mounts on the desktop and you can drop and drop files to or from it.

I hope that the above explanation make it at least somewhat understandable why someone would use JungleDisk to backup or store their data.

Best,
Dr. Evan Stark PhD

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Monday, November 24 2008 @ 12:53 PM PST

Leopard's built in Time Machine does the same thing - M8lsem

"I don't understand. Mac solutions - Apple's Backup/Mac.com/Time Machine ALL do the same thing free or the cost of a hard drive. "
Because it's off-site. When the house or office burns down, the back up didn't burn down with it.

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Thursday, March 12 2009 @ 07:45 PM PDT