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JungleDisk
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JungleDisk is the company blog at jungledisk.com, writing about systems and business. Since 2008, 29 different Hacker News readers have linked it 43 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-19, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers mention the JungleDisk site as a backup tool that stores encrypted files in the user's own S3 or Rackspace cloud storage. The comments name the product rather than discuss any writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 29 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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There is also no iPhone or Android app, but there is a pretty decent web interface. Not the case any longer, iPhone app is available (I haven't used it yet): https://www.jungledisk.com/iphone_app_backup_share_files_man... I'm sure an Android version is in the works.
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on “New security issue at Dropbox”Submitted Codepen Challenge: 403 Page with Responsive Font Sizing and CSS Variables as a story · 6 points
HN discussionJungleDisk might do what you are looking for (not that I know what it is that you are looking for!) http://www.jungledisk.com/
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on “Dropbox hits 1.0”Submitted Behind the Scenes – Our First Year as a Private Company (again) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionDidn't JungleDisk ( http://jungledisk.com ) kind of start this "backup to AWS, control your own data" movement? Does anyone use them anymore? I recall that they started as pay one price, then switched to a subscription model too... I wound up on Crashplan, though it's not perfect either.
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on “Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows”Submitted Brexit Impact on Data Sovereignty: Safe Harbor, EU Model Clauses, and More as a story · 5 points
HN discussionRecurly for recurring billing ( http://recurly.com/ ) (they just added support for VAT, ideal for us in the UK, and they support SagePay UK as a payment gateway as well as PayPal) Unfuddle ( http://unfuddle.com/ ) and github ( http://github.com/ ) for bug tracking. JungleDisk ( http://www.jungledisk.com/ ) for off-site backup. Uses your S3 account to store encrypted backups. Server Density ( http://www.serverdensity…
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on “Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2010 edition”Submitted Git Rebasing and Clean Pull Requests as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAnother happy ScaleFT customer at Jungle Disk https://www.jungledisk.com/blog/2016/07/13/behind-the-scene-...
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on “Ask HN: How do you manage SSH keys and SSL certificates in your company?”Submitted Keeping a Pet in a Cattle Yard (Persistent EC2 Spot Hack) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCloud storage isn't the same as endpoint data protection. While it is creating a second copy of data and has versioning it really is an online filesystem with redundancy. Storage providers have not yet put together what I would consider an auditable data protection capability where you can restore a full folder, disk volume, or complete system to a point-in-time snapshot of the data with specific retention periods (…
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on “Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B”Submitted Say “No” to 404s with NGINX redirects as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe use ScaleFT, wrote a blog post about it here: https://www.jungledisk.com/blog/2016/07/13/behind-the-scene-...
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on “Ask HN: How are credentials managed at your company?”Submitted Robbed by LinkedIn, Digital Advertising Gone Wrong as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor a static site put it in version control and keep as copy of your full site and deployment code. For a database driven dynamic site or a site with content uploads you can also use your version control via cron job to upload that content. Have the database journal out the tables you need to backup before syncing to your DVCS host over choice. If you're looking for a backup service to manage multiple servers with r…
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on “Ask HN: How do you back up your site hosted on a VPS such as Digital Ocean?”Submitted Testing Local Services Outside Your Network (using ngrok) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionDragos Inc., I interviewed one of their senior threat hunters on Cyber Talk Radio (text recap with link to podcast audio) https://www.jungledisk.com/blog/2017/06/27/industrial-cybers...
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on “Norsk Hydro ASA Suffers Extensive Cyber Attack”Submitted Great Leaders Stop Their Company from Rewarding Office Politics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionJungledisk is much much cheaper. https://www.jungledisk.com/business/
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on “Dropbox for Teams”I agree, that's something that https://www.jungledisk.com/ already does and frankly I just prefer dealing with one entity because the experience is better.
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on “Amazon Cloud Drive Is Not Dropbox”Considering a 1TB external drive costs less than a hundred dollars, and back-up software is either free, bundled with the drive, or part of the OS, there really is no excuse other than ignorance. http://www.jungledisk.com/ is a super cheap cloud-based backup system based on S3 that has some nice client software, less n3rd than tarsnap.
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on “Woman gets laptop back in DIY sting operation”Speaking of off-site backups, I have recently discovered http://www.jungledisk.com/homeserver/index.aspx It backs up your stuff to S3, and it can work on your Mac/PC, or on Windows Home Server. Have't tied it yet, but looks pretty neat. Also, new NAS from HP has built-in S3 backup: http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/hp-mediasmart-server-ex48...
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on “A gentle reminder that RAID doesn't make offsite backups”There's always JungleDisk: https://www.jungledisk.com/
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on “Rackspace Reduces Cloud Files Storage Price by 33%”Jungle Disk ( https://www.jungledisk.com/ ) is pretty much what the article describes: * Files are stored in a provider of your choice (current options are S3 and RackSpace) * Encrypted using a key stored locally * Looks like a local disk * Files are cached locally according to a set limit Unfortunately, the implementation is too sloppy. At least on OS X, the server is accessed using a local WebDAV server that proxi…
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on “The Cloud I'd Like to See”They're interested in allowing you to choose your back-end cloud provider (S3 vs Cloud Files) http://www.jungledisk.com/RackspaceFAQ.aspx
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on “Rackspace acquires Jungledisk”I use JungleDisk ( https://www.jungledisk.com/ ) - it's good because it can be used for backups, syncing, and previous versions of synced folders. It also does multiple users and multiple operating systems (Mac/Windows - probably does Linux too but I haven't checked). It's also quite cheap. I previously used Mozy, which was excellent, but only does backup. Mozy was much more efficient over the wire, better at notifi…
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on “Ask HN: What's your favorite online-backup tool?”I won a Spideroak ( http://www.spideroak.com ) plan and have been using it for about a month now. It works, uploads are fast, I can't comment on how easy a restore would be. The only thing that's really annoying is that a search for updated files uses 100% CPU. Other than that I can warmly recommend JungleDisk ( https://www.jungledisk.com/ ), been using it do backup my source code and documents for about a year now…
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on “Ask HN: What's your favorite online-backup tool?”* Arc http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/ * JungleDisk https://www.jungledisk.com/ Arc supports encrypted backup to Amazon S3 and/or Glacier, works with occasionally connected external hard disks perfectly. I use this to backup RAW photos from Aperture stored on an external USB hard disk (at least 50GB worth).
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on “Show HN: Raw Image Storage for photographers using S3 and Glacier”One option is to store your data on Amazon's S3 instance in Dublin. You can use https://www.jungledisk.com/ or other tools to do that. Edit: There is also a good overview of options (inc. location) here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_backup_ser...
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on “Marco Arment on Dropbox: Don't use it for anything valuable”In the mean time one can use http://www.jungledisk.com/ it keeps stuff in S3, looks like a local disk drive, client-side encryption, standard amazon s3 rates + $20 for software itself. You can also give your key to their middle-tier server and have web access to your files.
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on “With an official description, Google Drive is more real than ever”
