I have such luck on this forum, I thought I’d pose my question here. This is a question for those who use Jungle Disk the wonderful cloud storage program that automatically backs up selected files to amazon’s s3 cloud service. A few weeks ago, Jungle Disk was a $20 program and you paid per month for your usage of the S3 server (15 cents a gigabyte and since I only use the program to backup my writing folder [under 40 megabytes] I only pay something like 12 cents a month). They just released an update that involves brand new pricing: $2 a month plus the S3 service (no $20 onetime charge).
My question(s): Is this service still worth it? And (for those old timers on Jungle Disk) if you paid $20 already are you still paying the $2 a month fee (the original $20 said that all updates were free and there were no additional fees [which there are now…]).
Heres my issue, I had a chance to pay the $20 and I waited, and now I’m kicking myself thinking that I could have bought the program at $20 and spared myself the larger monthly fee (I plan on using this program for over 10 months so I will be paying more in the end). Now if the older users have to pay the new monthly fee (which I imagine they do) then I got a deal (I saved $20). Anyway, I know about dropbox and I use that too, but Jungle Disk does a fantastic job of automatically backing up my writing folder without me having to worry about it or even think about it so I use it for my backups and dropbox for file transfer (yes I’ve used hazel and dropbox but it never ran smoothly for me).
Thoughts, ideas, threats?
If I understand the announcement correctly, the monthly subscription is just an option. You can still buy the old perpetual/lifetime license here. The new monthly plan already includes JungleDisk Plus, which used to cost $1 per month.
JungleDisk is great for backing up simple media or configuration files, but just like Dropbox it doesn’t really understand Mac file systems or package file formats. 
“Keep Previous Versions” for instance does not work well with Scrivener files. I’d recommend to have multiple buckets and use differently timed backup jobs (daily/weekly) for critical files to prevent data corruption.
Oops, I think I have to backpeddle. 
The bbouncer script tells me that Jungle Disk passes most critical test (BSD flags, extended attributes, etc.), which is pretty good, actually. Dropbox fails these tests miserably. I’ve created a fresh Online Disk on Rackspace Cloud Files and now the restoration of previous versions seems to work for Scrivener files. 
There must be something wrong with my old bucket on Amazon S3.
Thanks for posting about the $20 still present (I had to slap my forehead at that one 
). I guess my question now is, which plan is better: the $2 a month or the $20?
I’m looking into this but jungle disk seems to have some critical problems with backing up scrivener packages.