Backing Up To A Wd Device - Western Digital My Book Duo User Manual

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Backing Up to a WD Device

Follow these steps to configure a backup plan through the WD Backup software:
1. Open the WD Backup software.
2. Click the
Backup
3. Then Click the
4. The "Select your WD storage device or cloud service" dialog box shows all of
the hardware devices and cloud service accounts that you can use for a backup
target device.
5.
Select the device
a. If you have more than three available devices, use the left- and right-scroll
buttons to see them all.
b. To backup to Dropbox or a Cloud Service account, go to the Section:
Backing Up to a Cloud
6. Click to display the "Setup Complete" dialog box.
Next
Note:
If you receive the message: "No writable partition found" follow these four sub-steps
before continuing with Step 7:
1. Unlock...
Click
2.
Yes
Click to allow WD Drive Unlock.exe to execute.
3.
Enter the password to unlock the device and Click
4.
The message "Your drive is now unlocked" will appear. Click
7. Click
Edit Schedule
Hourly, Daily, or Monthly. Select the desired option.
a. : This schedule type has no options and will back up hourly.
Hourly
b. : This provides options to select the day(s) of the week to perform this
Daily
back up plan and at what time this should start.
c. : This provides options for selecting which week(s) of the month and
Monthly
what day(s) of the week a back up plan should execute, plus at what time it
should start.
8. Click
Edit Files
Documents are part of the back up plan. This can be modfied under the
categories: Libraries or My Computer. Select the desired option.
a. : This option allows you to select which Libraries to back up, such
Libraries
as CameraRoll, Documents, Music, Pictures, SavedPictures, and Videos.
b.
My Computer
more selective.
9. Click
Start Backup
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icon on the top menu.
button on the bottom menu.
Add Backup Plan
that you want to use as your backup target or destination.
Service, otherwise continue with the next Step.
. This will open a box providing options for the backup to run
to choose which files to back up. By default, only the users
: This option allows you to select all applicable files or to be
to initiate the backup plan and to exit WD Backup.
Unlock Drive
.
Exit
and continue with Step 7.
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