Western Digital My Book for Mac User Manual - Manual (Page 19)

MY BOOK FOR MAC
USER MANUAL
BACKING UP YOUR COMPUTER FILES – 14
Backing Up Your Computer Files
This chapter includes the following topics:
About Backing Up Your Computer Files
Backing It All Up
Advanced Backup Capabilities
About Backing Up Your Computer Files
The WD SmartWare software automatically and continuously backs up all your important
files to the My Book drive—music, movies, photos, documents, e-mail, and other files.
Note: One installation of the WD SmartWare software supports up to three
backup drives that are configured with WD SmartWare software.
After the WD SmartWare software categorizes the different types of files on the selected
hard drive, clicking the Run Backup button backs all of them up. Or you can select
specific types of files to back up.
If your computer has more than one hard drive, you must select and back up each one to
protect all of the files on your computer.
After performing a backup, the WD SmartWare software protects your files by backing
up any:
• New file that is created on or copied to your hard drive
• Existing file that is changed in any way
This protection is automatic—the WD SmartWare software does it for you without any
action on your part—just make sure to leave your My Book drive connected to your
computer.
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.
Additionally, the Backup screen (see Figure 6 on page 15) provides:
• Content Gauges for your computer’s disk drives so you can see the number of
files and the storage size for each content category
• An Update Gauges button for rescanning the drive and verifying accurate
Content Gauge counts after adding or changing files on your computer
• A Detailed View content box that you can use to select specific categories of files
or folders to back up, with Apply and Revert buttons for implementing or
disregarding your selections
• Run Backup and Pause Backup buttons for controlling backups
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