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Jungle Disk Server Edition Overview

Support Oct 02, 2009

The Server Edition is a product from that is targeted at the Online Server Backup market for Windows and Linux servers.

  • The product allows server administrators to backup files and directories from their servers onto their choice of Cloud Storage service (Amazon S3 and Rackspace Cloud Files currently supported)
  • The Server Edition includes a brand new Backup Engine with a number of significant improvements from the Automatic Backup feature in the Desktop Edition including:
    1. Support for very large files (no file size or backup size limits)
    2. Block‐level de‐duplication 
    3. Compression 
    4. Efficient support for backing up lots of small files 
    5. Remote management from any Mac, Windows, or Linux PC 
    6. Block‐level incremental backups 
    7. Full extended filesystem information backups (permissions, special files, etc) 
    8. Multiple upload connections for increased throughput 
    9. AES‐256 encryption with user‐controlled key

** The Server Edition does not include the Network Drive feature of the Desktop Edition, nor does it support Web Access to backed up files (files must be restored using the Server Edition software, or future Desktop Edition releases.


Backup Vaults

  • The Server Edition introduces the new concept of a Backup Vault, where your backup data resides for a single computer.
  • A Backup Vault exists within an Online Disk. A single account can have multiple Online Disks (which may be at different cloud providers), and each Online Disk can have multiple Backup Vaults (multiple computers backing up into the same Online Disk).
  • Only a single server can backup into a specific Backup Vault – each server you are backing up needs its own Backup Vault. However, if you replace a server, you can “take over” the old server’s Backup Vault to avoid having to re‐upload any data that was already backed up.
  • You can Restore from any Backup Vault, even one being used by a different server.


Backup History / Backup Cleanup

  • The automatic backup feature in the Desktop Edition kept multiple versions of files on a per‐file basis. In the Server Edition, versioning is handled on a per‐backup run basis. This allows you to restore a file or set of files “as they existed” at a specific backup time.  
  • In the Restore Dialog you can select to restore files from the most recent backup, or a specific backup in your Backup History.
  • The length of time Backups are kept is controlled by the Retention Period, which can be set on a per‐backup‐job basis in the Backup Options (default is 60 days). You can optionally disable the Retention Period, which will keep all data from all previous backups indefinitely.
  • Once a week a Backup Cleanup process occurs which removes data from backups that are older than your retention period. Only data which was no longer present in a later backup will be removed. Those old backups will no longer appear in the Restore Dialog after the Backup Cleanup process.


Remote Management / Gateway Service

  • Unlike the Desktop Edition, which is managed by a local GUI application on the computer running Jungle Disk, the Server Edition is designed to be managed remotely from any Mac, Windows, or Linux PC.
  • There is a separate Server Management client that is used for managing Jungle Disk Server Edition instances.
  • When starting the Server Management client, you need to log in with your Jungle Disk account, after which you will see a list of the Servers currently running Jungle Disk Server Edition on your account. You can select a server to connect to and configure / manage it.  
  • Connections are routed through a Jungle Disk hosted Gateway Service which makes it possible to connect to and manage your servers securely from anywhere. A secure SSL tunnel is established from your desktop to the server machine, and all traffic passes between them encrypted.
  • Once you have connected to a server, the Server Management interface is very similar to the normal Jungle Disk Monitor GUI. You can configure backups, view backup history, restore files, etc.

 

 
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