Andrew Zbikowski wrote: > Lots of backup information going around lately. > > I've been testing out JungleDisk (http://www.jungledisk.com) on my > Windows machines as an alternative to using BackupPC to an external > hard disk. For those who don't know, JungleDisk is a software package > that allows you to use Amazon's S3 service as a locally mapped > drive/volume. It also has automated backup features, which is what I'm > using to backup the critical data on Windows (My Documents, iTunes, > etc.) Looks like Amazon is going to charge me around $6.50 a month for > the data stored on S3. Not bad really. > > So far, I'm happy with it on the Windows machines so I figured it > would be time to give it a try under Linux. Has anyone on the list > tried it? > > And a related question for those running automated off site backups: > What tools are you using? rsync? Something more advanced? > I've been using rsnapshot which uses rsync underneath. Haven't had any trouble with it yet after two years of daily backups. -Steve