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Another Amazon S3 based backup tool.

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Jungle Disk Desktop Edition lets you store files and automatically backup data easily and securely to Amazon.com's S3 Storage Service.

S3Fox Organizer helps you organize/manage/store your files on Amazon S3

S3 browser is a Mac OS X administration tool for the Amazon S3 data storage service

Erlaws is a collection of client implementations of Amazon's WebServices offerings. Currently there are clients for S3, SQS and SDB.

Mathusalem is a robust and unintrusive backup system for Mac OS X Leopard, which can be used either as a System Preferences pane or directly as a command line tool.

Here is my step-by-step guide to getting your machine setup to do automatic daily backups to Amazon. I developed these steps on my MacBook Air running Leopard however they should work for previous versions of OS X as well.

Save disk space and bandwidth, and increase the reliability of your site by using the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) remote storage service to host your media files. You'll also improve the reliability of your site as it serves large multimedia files

Jungle Disk is an application that lets you store files and backup data securely to Amazon.com's S3 ™ Storage Service. * Store an unlimited amount of data for only 15¢ per gigabyte * No monthly subscription fee, no startup fee, no commitment * Your data is fully encrypted at all times * Data is stored at multiple Amazon.com datacenters around the country for high availability * Access files directly from Windows Explorer, Mac OSX Finder, and Linux * Automatically back up your important files quickly and easily

If Flickr and it’s ilk could be considered tier one applications, then surely Amazon S3 much be considered a tier zero service.