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Mirra Manual for Windows Release 2.2 67
2. An alert in the Alerts area of the Status screen confirms that the folder has
been selected for backup.
3. If you have not turned off the Mirra folder icons, most backed up
files and folders display a small Mirra icon in their lower left corner,
although some special Windows folders may not display the icon.
These icons appear only when your computer is connected to your
Personal Server. If you use a laptop and disconnect it from your network, the
icons disappear. However, all selected files and folders are still backed up. See
Turning Off the File and Folder Icons for instructions on how to turn Mirra
folder icons on or off.
4. The backup is listed in your Activity Log
On average, it takes approximately 20 minutes to back up one gigabyte of data on
a 100Mb network. However, the rate at which your data transfers varies depending
on a variety of factors:
• Your OS configuration
• The speed of your hard disk
• The type of Ethernet switch/hub you’re using
• The number of files stored in each folder being backed up
• The types of files being backed up
• The number of other computers on your network connected to the Mirra
It takes a while to back up your folders for the first time because all your selected
folders are being backed up at once. After the initial backup, keeping backups up to
date is not as time consuming because only a few files change at any one time.
Opening Backups from your Desktop or Windows
Explorer
To go directly from your desktop or from Windows Explorer to a backed up folder on
your Mirra, even if the Mirra application is not open,
Step 1: Right-click the folder on your desktop or in Windows Explorer.
Step 2: From the dropdown menu, select View backup on Mirra.
If the Mirra application was not already open, it opens now and displays the
contents of the selected folder on the Backup & Restore screen.