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Peter P: Financial Planner
Remote access saves time…
Mirra user Peter P. is the classic example of a small office/home office business
professional. A financial planner and mortgage financier, he has both a home office,
where his primary computer residesa nd a business office, where he uses a laptop that
he also takes to client meetings.
For Peter, remote access was a key factor in deciding to use the Mirra Personal Server.
“If I forget a file when I visit a client, I can’t waste 40 minutes of my time - or my client’s
time -driving back to my office to retrieve it,” Peter says. “The Mirra’s remote access
feature allows me to get to my files whether I’m at the office or visiting clients.”
In addition to remote access, Peter uses his Mirra to back up important business files,
music and photos. He used to use a tape backup system, but he never felt confident
that he could actually restore lost files with it. Mirra gives Peter the security of knowing
that his files are always protected without his having to swap out tapes or CDRs for
backup.
“The Mirra Personal Server is easy to use, extremely convenient and reliable,” Peter
said. “I now have peace of mind knowing that I have a safety net for my files.”
Pete T: Photography Enthusiast
Protecting treasured family photos…
Referring to Pete as an avid photo hobbyist is an understatement -- he has more than
20,000 digital photos in his collection! His pictures document precious moments with his
family, his friends and, most important of all, his grandkids. Protecting these valuable
photos is important to his peace of mind, but it had become a time-consuming burden.
After he accidentally deleted a cherished set of photos, Pete began backing them up on
CDs. Each time he downloaded pictures from his camera to his PC, he immediately
burned them onto a CD. However, this was a tedious and occasionally unreliable
process, as he learned after a few of those backup CDs turned out to be unreadable.
Pete bought a Mirra Personal Server for its immediate and continuous backup feature.
Now, when he downloads digital photos from his camera to his PC, they are instantly
backed up to the Mirra. And if he accidentally deletes photos, he can quickly restore
them from his Mirra.
In addition to automatic photo protection, Pete uses his Mirra to share photos with family
and friends, something he used to hesitate to do because he was reluctant to clog their
e-mail boxes with large attachments. Mirra’s folder sharing feature allows Pete to share
as many pictures as he likes with anyone he wants, without having to use e-mail
attachments.
“Mirra is a great product for protecting and sharing my digital photos,” says Pete. “I’m
very happy with my Personal Server. It works exactly as advertised.”
Mary B: Office Manager
Mirra pays for itself…
Mary B. is office manager for an insurance agent who works out of his home office.
She’s also a Mirra pioneer who swears by Mirra’s reliability and claims it’s already saved
her life - twice.
Mary’s laptop began to show signs of failing. She had invested seven months on a
massive music project for a friend’s wedding and was terrified she would lose all those
files just days before the event.
“I was in a complete panic and I didn’t have time to take my laptop into some repair
shop. I just wanted those files off my laptop and somewhere safe ASAP,” says Mary of
trying to rescue her music project. “So you can imagine the sense of urgency I felt to
move that data quickly. Once the files were on the Mirra, it was easy to restore them to
another computer and I was able to complete the wedding project on time.”
The second save came when her boss’s PC crashed and he needed to move all his data
to a new computer. Again, Mirra saved the day.
“One of the hardest things to do is upgrade a computer and computer consultants can
charge as much as $200 to $300 to get everything transferred,” Mary says. “It was easy
for me to restore my boss’s files to a different PC without any technical support. My
Mirra has easily paid for itself, not once but twice.”
Gregg S: Author & Radio Host
10 minutes to airtime, uh oh…
Gregg S. is the author of Internet Privacy for Dummies and the host of a daily radio
program. He runs his business from his home office, which currently houses a desktop
and a laptop computer and which he is in the process of expanding. Gregg relies
heavily on his PCs but doesn’t feel a burning desire to know much about how they
actually work. In other words, he wants them to work flawlessly without his having to
intervene or to hire a computer consultant.
Before he started using Mirra, Gregg stored files haphazardly on both PCs, didn’t know
where anything was and had no consistent backup practices. He knew enough to know
that he risked losing important files, but not enough to know how to resolve the problem.
An IT consultant recommended a complex backup system, but Gregg couldn’t figure out
how to use it. He realized that he and not his computers, was the weak link in his home
office and that he really needed an automatic backup/file management solution.
Came the day when Gregg’s computer crashed just minutes before he was to go on the
air. Naturally it contained a document he had to have for the opening segment of his
show. “I started to panic,” says Gregg, “but then I remembered that with my new Mirra,
which I’d bought only weeks before, I could restore that document from Mirra to my other
computer.” He had the document in hand and was ready to go on the air with time to
spare.
“I don’t know what I’d do without Mirra,” Gregg says. “It’s saved my bacon more than
once. And it works on its own -- I don’t have to do a thing. I’m hooked!”
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