Using an Internet-based storage service means that it is always available, from wherever you are, where they make backups of your data and basically has all the worries of making sure the data isn’t lost. Also, any kind of damage (dropping, breaking, burglars, house fire) could occur and then the data’s lost forever. If you burn something on a DVD, you don’t know how long it will last before there’s any data loss. Transfer the files to Amazon and you’re safe! No need to worry about malfunctioning external disk drives, burning backup CDs/DVDs all the time or other issues. If you’re looking for safe and very cheap backup, I would really recommend Amazon S3. ![]() therefore, I naturally had to contact them to show this, but they still refused that there were any problem at their end whatsoever with my initial account. So, what I did was to create a new account at Amazon, with the exact same information about me and payment information, and it worked from day one. I contacted customer service again, but no, they said things should work, or something was wrong with my middle-ware product. After some Googling, I eventually found that this problem was related to my payment information. We e-mailed back and forth for some days (they’re good at fast replies, I give them that at least), but to no avail. Please contact customer service.Īfter that, I repeatedly contacted customer service, but they had no idea what the problem could be. ![]() When I first set up my account and used various third-party software to access my account, I got this error:ĪccountProblem – There is a problem with your AWS account that prevents the request from being served. When files are being transferred, you can use the Jungle Disk Activity Monitor to overlook operations: On Mac You just drag ‘n’ drop your files into it or copy and paste. Since it works just as an external drive, it’s accessible through the Finder respectively Explorer. It will show up on your Desktop on Mac and in the System Tray in Windows: On Mac Personally, I only keep files on the WebDAV server that that I frequently watch, the other ones are removed. The downside of this is that you might have duplicates of your files one copy on your hard drive in its original location, and one copy on the WebDAV server. It also stores your files locally, so no transfer fees are applicable for watching existing files if they’re in the local Jungle Disk cache. Since transfers seems to fail now and then (it kind of makes me sometimes actually wonder about the reliability), it’s great o use a tool like JungleDisk, because it will keep trying to transfer your files, automatically, in the background if the initial transfer fails. S3Fox Organizer – an add-on for Firefox.It uses a local WebDAV server and basically it works just like connecting an external drive. Not too shabby, eh? □ Third-party toolsĪvailable on the market is an abundance of third-party tools, and amongst them I’ve found JungleDisk to be ultimately superior. ![]() ![]() Pricing Current pricing Storage $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used Data Transfer $0.20 per GB – data uploaded $0.20 per GB – data downloaded Pricing as of June 1st 2007 Storage $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used Data Transfer $0.10 per GB – all data uploaded $0.18 per GB – first 10 TB / month data downloaded $0.16 per GB – next 40 TB / month data downloaded $0.13 per GB – data downloaded / month over 50 TB Requests $0.01 per 1,000 PUT or LIST requests $0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests (No charge for delete requests)īasically, what this means is that I pay about 20 – 24$ a year for a safe and reliable backup of about 10 GB of data. Anyway, the idea with Amazon S3 is that you can store any amount of data for a very low cost on their servers, and use it as a secure back-up. Now that day is here!Īctually, I was going to write this post in last November since most options already existed back then, but I encountered a problem when trying to access my Amazon account (more on that below). At the time, you could only program against an API to use the service to transfer files, so I waited for a while, convinced that proper services would be offered. March 14 last year, Amazon launched Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Amazon S3 – Amazon Simple Storage Service Published on Wednesday, May 9, 2007
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