I chose Amanda for my server because it’s always on. Jungledisk for my laptop because it isn’t always on. Amanda runs from cron and I may not always have my laptop on when it would trigger. I’ve configured Jungledisk 2.0 to run when it gets a chance following a missed backup (Normal backups are scheduled for 16:00 daily).

If I had a desktop that was always on and in the same place as the server I would backup the desktop over Samba.

Amanda uses its own buckets (to represent tapes) which can be mounted through Jungledisk’s interface (e.g., exposed over webdav). I wouldn’t do access with it, though.

Jungledisk has its own bucket for use. There’s no reason to share - buckets don’t cost extra.

JD+ doesn’t matter because all of my data is encrypted before it leaves my system (same for Amanda). I don’t need to directly access my files with another non-jungledisk program because I use jungledisk to access them. I’m not tied to open source software.

Both solutions are very good at what they do. Amanda is very cool and I hope Jungledisk can incorporate some of its scheduling and backup mechanisms.