On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 04:29:34PM -0600, Steve Cayford wrote: > 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. I am using Boxbackup: http://www.boxbackup.org/ It has some nice bells and whistles. It can do lazy or snapshot backups and works like rsync in that it only sends the changes over the wire. I mostly like that it also has versioned backups for those times when you wanted the Monday copy of the file that changed every day last week and today is Friday :-) Jungledisk does sound like a pretty good deal though and I would like to hear about folks that have used the Linux version of the client. Kelly