Review: Personal server offers painless backup!

[Dashken]

NEW YORK (AP) -- The computer server, workhorse of the Internet and corporate world, just got personal. And remarkably user-friendly.

That's a very good thing indeed, because the chore we all loathe and too often neglect is backing up our exploding data store, which is worth so much more to us than our various computers.

Intimidating to the non-geek, the server is normally thought of as a machine that's entrusted to network managers. Nothing we can fathom without stacks of manuals and hours to burn.



The Mirra Personal Server from Mirra Inc. changes that. It offers mere mortals easy and automatic backups they can handle alone.

Anyone with a few networked computers at home or in a home office should take a serious look at the Mirra. Just hook it up to your network, select what you want to back up, and walk away.

You can also share your data over the Internet with whomever you wish. All they need is an e-mail address and a Web browser.

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/pte....ap/index.html