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Mini-Review of JungleDisk and ZumoDrive

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TheQwerty:
Jungle Disk just announced a new version in beta (v3.1) which will make public sharing easier.
http://blog.jungledisk.com/2010/07/09/jungle-disk-3-1-beta-public-file-sharing-is-here/

iphigenie:
I really like spideroak, it works fully on windows, mac and linux (I have it on slackware) - not that many do. The command line control has also come in very handy. There's also a nice control over what gets backedup, and over what is in the archive.

I have paid for the 100Gb plan.

I also use syncplicity - for sync of configs and files between home/work/game machines. It's just a lot faster to manage than spideroak for that one use case, although has a tendency to add things to the sync you didnt want (defaults to adding new folders automatically to its profile). I suspect that eventually this will switch to spideroak but haven't taken the time for it.

Will try to find the time to give a more structured pro/con

Paul Keith:
@iphigenie, do you have a newbie guide on how to make spider-oak work using the command line? (I'm assuming this applies to Linux too)

The common complaint with Spider-Oak is that it takes more memory than Dropbox so this seems like a useful alternative for people wanting to get on with that program.

(That said, it's been so long since I opened my Spider-Oak software because unlike DropBox there's less of a reason to have it opened all the time since there's no convenient file manager integration)

wurst:
I tried out JungleDisk as well as SpiderOak as I was looking for client-side encrypted cloudspace.
I was disappointed in both of them.
Spider-Oak was slow and I could never tell what the software was actually doing. JungleDisk was more transparent. Yet both have severe issues with special characters in filenames. I'm from Germany and we have umlauts (ä,ö,ü) and other weird characters (ß) which are part of our language. When cross-syncing between a PC and a Mac I ended up with duplicates for all files with special characters, half of them not accessible anymore. It was a big mess. I thought these special character issues should be gone, but they are not.
I went back to DropBox and now use Securstick (http://www.withopf.com/tools/securstick/) for client-side encryption as I wanted individual file/filename encryption instead of a fragile encrypted container (although plain Truecrypt works fine with Dropbox).

Duplicati (http://code.google.com/p/duplicati/) with plain S3 is also a contender for client-side encrypted cloudspace, but it's not out for Mac yet.

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