Backing Up To A Cloud Service - Western Digital My Book Duo User Manual

Backing Up to a Cloud Service

Follow these steps to have the WD Backup software use a cloud service as a back up
destination.
Prerequisite: Setup and configure the cloud service you want to use as your backup
destination, such as Dropbox
1. Open the WD Backup software.
2. Click the
Backup
3. Click the
Add Backup Plan
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. Click the
Dropbox
Note:
If you receive the message: "No writable partition found" follow these four sub-steps
before continuing with Step 6:
1.
Click Unlock...
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
6.
6. On the
Connect to Dropbox
initiates a connection request on your behalf and uses your Web browser to
access the Dropbox website.
a. On the Dropbox website, if you have not configured your account to
remember your login credentials, type your email address and password
and click
software.
b. Click
Allow
c. You will be presented with a lengthy alpha-numeric code. Click and copy
this code.
d. Close or minimize the browser window that opened for this task.
e. Paste the code into the
dialog box.
f. Click
Finish
7. This will open a new dialog box, which allows you to schedule the back up and
select the files to back up.
8. 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.
9. 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.
My Book Duo
User Manual
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, before continuing with this process.
icon on the top menu.
button on the bottom menu.
option and then Click
dialog box Click
to see the connection request from the WD Backup
Sign In
to accept the connection request.
Authorization Code
.
. This will open a box providing options for the backup to run
to choose which files to back up. By default, only the users
.
Next
Unlock Drive
.
Exit and continue with Step
In. The WD Backup software
Sign
field on the
Connect to Dropbox
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WD Backup Software
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