Comments on: HP Announces release of Online Backup and Mac Backup Add-ins for EX470/EX475

By: CloudBerry Backup for WHS : Paul's Time Sink

CloudBerry Backup for WHS : Paul's Time Sink — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:32:06 +0000

[...] appears to have dropped support for their online backup add-in for Window Home Server, and are now promoting other backup services. Their add-in used [...]

By: Alex Yang

Alex Yang — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:31:33 +0000

Hey Alex,

Thanks for the FAST reply and clarification! Subscription fees being what they are, I think I’ll stick with Elephant drive for now…

By: Alex Kuretz

Alex Kuretz — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:02:33 +0000

Good catch, Alex, a point of clarification is needed. The Add-In is free from HP for MediaSmart Server owners whereas I believe the JungleDisk add-in is commercial software. However, you must still sign up with Amazon S3 and for the storage service, and as such you will be responsible for any storage and transfer fees.

By: Alex Yang

Alex Yang — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:58:22 +0000

Dear CBick and Alex K.,

Quote – The advantage would come from it being 100 % free & supported by HP.

WOW!??!? Is this accurate?!?? HP Mediaserver users get offline backups at NO additional charge?!?? What about storage capacity??? Is it limited to a set size that is free like 10gb and then they charge $$$

I’m asking because I’ve been an HP UPLINE customer PAYING until they pulled the plug in March 2009 and then became a subscriber to Elephant disk (paying) after HP’s service was discontinued…

If this is indeed free and without any strings I’ll be more than happy to use an ADD-in utility for off-site backup rather than having to open a REMOTE console session and login as ADMIN to run Elephant Drive’s desktop backup client….

Please do reply at your earliest convenience!!! This is great news indeed!!

-Alex

By: CBick

CBick — Sun, 31 May 2009 03:19:49 +0000

The advantage would come from it being 100 % free & supported by HP.

If I had both on my serevr & must decide which one to use then, It would be the HP one.

By: Glyn Hughes

Glyn Hughes — Sat, 30 May 2009 04:24:51 +0000

So if I have been using the Jungle Disk Add-In for some time now there is no advantage in downloading/installing the HP version of Amazon S3 as it exactly the same?

By: CBick

CBick — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:36:40 +0000

I’m just saying that the HP update adds nothing that I didn’t already have. The Jungle disk add-in does the exact same thing in the exact same way that the HP one does.

So i’m a little let down.

I probably had built my expectation up to much & set myself up to be disapointed.

By: Alex Kuretz

Alex Kuretz — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:20:06 +0000

I never used JungleDisk, are you saying HP ripped off the user interface? Because they are both utilize the Amazon S3 storage service there will definitely be commonalities…

By: CBick

CBick — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:20:57 +0000

OK
After months of waiting, I finaly get the download & discover that basicly HP ripped off Jungle Disks Add-In.

Needles to see I’m a little let down. ;0)

By: DieHard

DieHard — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:12:21 +0000

From what I see, if you have the 2.5 hack then the HP Online Backup is version 2.5.10.27311 and it loads on the new Dashboard, the one here is version 2.1.11.27322 that loads in the toolbar.

At first look, this mac.dmg file is 5.6 meg while the one from the 2.5 update is a lot smaller in size.