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Backing Up Your Computer Files

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This chapter includes the following topics:

About Backing Up Your Computer Files

Backing It All Up
Advanced Backup Capabilities
About Backing Up Your Computer Files
The WD SmartWare software automatically and continuously backs up all of the content
(music, movies, photos, documents, e-mail, and other files) on your computer to your My
Book drive. After the WD SmartWare software categorizes the different types of content
you own, simply clicking the Run Backup button will back all of them up. Advanced
users can select specific types of content to back up.
After performing a backup, the WD SmartWare software protects your files by backing
up any:
• New file that is created on your computer or copied to your hard drive
• Existing file that is changed in any way
This protection is automatic—the WD SmartWare software does it for you without any
action on your part—just make sure to leave your My Book drive connected to your
computer.
Note: Automatic backup protection is continuous for as long as your My Book
drive is connected to your computer. Then, whenever you disconnect and
reconnect the drive to your computer, the WD SmartWare software rescans your
computer for new or changed files and resumes automatic, continuous backup
as before.
Additionally, the Backup screen (see Figure 7 on page 14) provides:
• Content Gauges for your computer's disk drives, so you can see the number of
files and the storage size for each content category
• A Refresh View button for refreshing the Content Gauges
• A Detailed View content box that you can use to select specific categories of files
or folders to back up, with an Apply button for implementing your selections
• Run Backup and Pause Backup buttons for starting and stopping backups
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