Creating a usb backup – Western Digital My Cloud EX4 User Manual User Manual

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BACKING UP AND RETRIEVING FILES

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WD MY CLOUD EX4 PERSONAL CLOUD STORAGE

USER MANUAL

Creating a USB Backup

Use the following steps to backup your data on your WD My Cloud EX4 to or from a USB
device.

1.

On the navigation bar, click Backups to display the Backups screen.

2.

Click USB Backups, if not already selected.

3.

Complete the following fields to create a USB backup job:

4.

Click Create. This creates the backup job for the requested backup

Job Name

Enter a Job Name for your backup.

Direction

Indicate the direction of your backup from the pull-down menu.
Options include:

USB to NAS: Backs up the data on your USB device to the WD

My Cloud EX4 device.

NAS to USB: Backs up the data on your WD My Cloud EX4

device to a USB device.

Source Folder

Click Browse and select the folder you'd like to backup from your
destination device

Destination Folder

Click Browse and select the folder to which you'd like to backup
your source device.

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