Western Digital My Book Studio/Studio LX User Manual - Manual (Page 23)

MY BOOK STUDIO AND STUDIO LX
USER MANUAL
BACKING UP YOUR COMPUTER FILES – 18
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 of the content
(music, movies, photos, documents, e-mail, and other files) on your computer to your
My Book drive. After the WD SmartWare software categorizes the different types of
content you have, simply clicking the Run Backup button will back all of them up.
Advanced users can select specific types of content to back up.
After performing a backup, the WD SmartWare software protects your files by backing
up any:
• New file that you create or copy to your hard drive
• Existing file that you change 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 8 on page 19) 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
• A Refresh View 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 an Apply Changes button for implementing your
selections
• Run Backup and Pause Backup buttons for starting and pausing backups
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