How The Backup Function Works - Western Digital My Book Live User Manual

Settings—Manages backup parameters, searches for updates and provides
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a link to the My Book Live dashboard, where you can configure the drive.
Help—Provides quick access to Learning Center topics and links to online
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support services. The Learning Center topics provide more detail than the
info/online help for each screen, but not as much as the WD SmartWare
Software User Manual.
In the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive, all of your files that are
available for backup display against a blue background in six categories where:
This file category
Documents
Mail
Music
Movies
Pictures
Other
For a complete list of all included file extensions, search for Answer ID 3644 in the
WD Knowledge Base at http://support.wdc.com.
Note that:
Moving the pointer over a category displays the number of files in the
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category.
The System category, shown against a dark gray background, includes all of
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your operating system files that are not available for backup. Files that are not
backed up include system files, program files, applications, and working files
like .tmp and .log files.
The Retrieved category, also shown against a dark gray background,
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includes the files that you have retrieved from a prior backup. They, too, are
not available for backup.
Note: Additional Files are files outside of the backup.

How the Backup Function Works

The WD SmartWare software automatically and continuously backs up all of your
important data files to the My Book Live drive—music, movies, photos, documents,
email, and other files.
After the WD SmartWare software categorizes the different types of files on the
selected hard drive, clicking the Start Backup button backs all of them up. Or you
can select specific files, folders, or categories of files to back up.
If your computer has more than one internal hard drive, you must select and back up
each one to protect all of the data files on your computer.
Includes files with these extensions
.doc, .txt, .htm, .html, .ppt, .xls, .xml, and other document
extensions
.mail, .msg, .pst., and other mail extensions
.mp3, .wav, .wma, and other music extensions
.avi, .mov, .mp4, and other movie extensions
.gif, .jpg, .png, and other picture extensions
Others that do not belong in the five main categories
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