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Important:
Appearance of a Caution message indicating that your drive is full
means that there is not enough free space on the drive to complete
the backup.
The best long-term solution would be to relegate the drive to long-
term archive storage and:
a. Click the Home tab to display the Home screen.
b. Click the WDStore link in the WD Online box to view the Western
c. Click External Hard Drives and select the best drive to suit your
Until your new drive arrives, you might be able to free some space
on the full drive by reducing the number of backup versions kept for
each file (see "Specifying the Number of Backup Versions" on
page 20).
5. If you clicked Pause Backup at step 3, the Stop backup? confirmation prompt
reminds you that if you stop the backup before it completes, the WD SmartWare
software removes all of the backup files that were just copied to your My Passport
drive.
To continue, click either:
•
Return to Backup to disregard your pause request and resume the backup
•
Remove Files and Stop to follow through with your pause request, stop the
backup, and remove the newly created backup files
Advanced Backup Capabilities
The advanced backup capabilities include:
• Selecting specific content to back up
• Changing the backup software settings:
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Choosing the number of backup versions to keep
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Pausing the backup until your computer is idle
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future requirements.
MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL
USER MANUAL
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