Backup Tab Displays - Western Digital WDA4NC20000 - ShareSpace NAS 2TB HD 1TB x 2 RAID User Manual

Table 1. Home Tab Functional Description (Continued)
Display Component
External device content
gauge

Backup Tab Displays

The WD SmartWare software provides two different Backup tab displays, depending on
how you want to select files to back up:
• By category—As shown in the content gauges
• By file—As shown in the folder structure of your computer's internal hard drive
See "How the Backup Function Works" on page 28 for a description of category- and
file-type backups.
Use the Backup tab displays to select the files or categories of files that you want to
back up and control the backup operation.
See Figure 2 and Table 2 on page 9 for a brief functional description of the Backup tab
displays.
Description
After installing the WD SmartWare software—before running your
first backup or copying any files to the device—the external device
content gauge shows only a small number of files in the Additional
Files category. These are the system files and hidden files that your
computer's operating system put there when you installed the
device.
After running a backup or copying files to the external device, the
external device content gauge shows:
• All of the files that have been backed up in the same categories
as the content gauge for your computer's internal hard drive
(see "Your computer's content gauge" on page 7)
• Any other files that you have copied or saved to the external
device in the Additional Files category
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