Western Digital WD SmartWare User Manual - Manual (Page 48)

WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE
USER MANUAL
BACKING UP FILES – 44
c. Select the Hourly, Daily, or Monthly option and use the check boxes and
selection boxes to schedule your backups:
d. Click OK to save your schedule and close the Set Backup Frequency screen.
When you click Enable Backup, the WD SmartWare software adds a backup
schedule reminder button to the Backup screen:
Clicking the button displays a status dialog that:
Shows the date and time of your next scheduled backup, the last backup that
might have been missed, and the last completed backup
Provides a Backup Now button for bypassing the schedule and running the
backup now
5. On the Backup screen:
6. To back up all of the categories of files on the selected backup source device:
a. Verify that the backup mode is category and that Ready to perform category
backup appears at the upper-left corner of the Backup screen.
If the backup mode is file and Ready to perform file backup appears there, then
click the Switch to Category Backup button and OK at the Switching Backup
Plan prompt.
Selecting . . . Performs a backup . . .
Hourly Every hour, on the hour.
Daily On the selected days of the week, at the selected time:
a. Select or clear the Days check boxes to specify the days of the
week that you want to run your backup.
b. Use the at selection box to specify the time of day that you
want to run your backup.
Monthly On the selected day of the month, at the selected time:
a. Use the Every selection box to specify which occurrence of the
day that you want to run your backup—First, Second, Third,
Fourth, or Last.
b. Use the Day selection box to specify the day of the week that
you want to run your backup.
c. Use the at selection box to specify time of day that you want to
run your backup.
IF you want to back up . . . on the
selected backup source device,
THEN . . .
All of the categories of files Proceed to step 6.
Selected categories of files Skip to step 7.
All of the files and folders Skip to step 8 on page 46.
Selected files and folders Skip to step 9 on page 46.