Wd Smartware Software Overview; Wd Smartware Home Screen - Western Digital WDBABT0010HBK - My Book AV DVR Expander User Manual

WD SmartWare Software Overview

WD SmartWare software is an easy-to-use tool that gives you the power to:
• Secure your drive—In drive settings, create a password to protect your encrypted
drive from unauthorized access or data theft.
• Protect your data automatically—Automatic, continuous backup instantly makes
a copy whenever you add or change a file.
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.
• See your backup as it happens—Seeing is believing. Visual backup organizes and
displays your content into categories and shows the progress of your backup.
• Retrieve lost files effortlessly—Bring back your valuable data to its original
location whether you've lost all your data or just overwritten an important file.

WD SmartWare Home Screen

The WD SmartWare Home screen has four tab-selected options:
• Home—Provides a Content Gauge with the capacity of each hard drive in or
connected to your computer (see Figure 7 on page 12)
• Backup—Manages existing backups or creates new backups of your important
data, including movies, music, documents, e-mail, and photos (see Figure 8 on
page 20)
• Retrieve—Brings back valuable data that has been lost or overwritten (see Figure
11 on page 27)
• Settings—Manages security, diagnostics, power settings, and backup parameters
(see Figure 9 on page 23)
On the Home screen, you can modify the primary drive being categorized with the drop-
down selection box under the name of your computer. By selecting a different drive, the
system will identify the categories of files on that drive. Then click the:
• Backup tab to back up files from the selected drive to your My Book drive
• Retrieve tab to retrieve backed up files from your My Book drive to any location
on your computer
In the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive, all of your files that are available for
backup are shown against a blue background in categories that are based on the
following folders on your computer:
• Music
• Movies
• Pictures
• Mail
• Documents
• Other
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