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Benefit: • If you back up your home folder, any file or folder you add to the home folder (which includes your desktop) is automatically backed up. Drawback: • You cannot synchronize a folder from your Personal Server to your Macintosh in a folder that's backed up. So if you've backed up your home folder, you must select another folder not located in your home folder in which to synchronize folders. We recommend synchronizing in your Shared folder (located on your hard drive in /Users/Shared). Excluding Folders during Initial Backup You can select a folder for backup but exclude from backup specific folders within the backed up folder. For example, you can select your home folder for backup but exclude the large and ever-changing Caches folder, whose backup is unnecessary and would regularly slow your system performance. To exclude folders from backup, Step 1: In the Configure Backup window, click Exclude Folders:: Figure 5~13 Configure Backup Mirra Manual for Macintosh Release 2.2 66

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Mirra Manual for Macintosh
Release 2.2
66
Benefit:
•
If you back up your home folder, any file or folder you add to the home folder
(which includes your desktop) is automatically backed up.
Drawback:
•
You cannot synchronize a folder from your Personal Server to your
Macintosh in a folder that’s
backed up. So if you’ve backed up your home
folder, you must select another folder not located in your home folder in
which to synchronize folders. We recommend synchronizing in your
Shared
folder (located on your hard drive in
/Users/Shared
).
Excluding Folders during Initial Backup
You can select a folder for backup but exclude from backup specific folders within
the backed up folder.
For example, you can select your home folder for backup but exclude the large and
ever-changing Caches folder, whose backup is unnecessary and would regularly slow
your system performance.
To exclude folders from backup,
Step 1:
In the
Configure Backup
window, click
Exclude Folders
::
Figure 5~13
Configure Backup