Advanced Backup Capabilities; Selecting Specific Content To Back Up - Western Digital WDBABT0010HBK - My Book AV DVR Expander User Manual

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
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 Book drive.
To continue, click either:
• Continue Backup to disregard your pause request and resume the backup
• Stop Backup 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
Selecting Specific Content to Back Up
To back up some of your computer files:
1.
On the Backup screen (see Figure 8 on page 20), select Detailed View to open the
backup files content box:
Digital Online Store website.
future requirements.
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