Western Digital My Passport (Unencrypted drives) User Manual User Manual

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MY PASSPORT

USER MANUAL

BACKING UP FILES

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3.

On the Backup screen:

4.

To back up all of the categories of files and on the internal hard drive:

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.

b. Click Advanced View to open the backup by categories selection box and verify

that the check boxes for all six categories are selected:

c. As required, select any cleared check boxes and then click Apply Changes to

create a custom backup plan and refresh the content gauge for your My Passport
drive.

d. Click Start Backup to begin backing up all categories of files on the internal hard

drive

and skip to

step 8 on page 30.

5.

To backup selected categories of files:

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.

IF you want to back up . . .

on the internal hard drive,


THEN . . .

All of the categories of files

Proceed to step 4.

Selected categories of files

Skip to

step 5.

All of the files and folders

Skip to step 6 on page 29.

Selected files or folders

Skip to

step 7 on page 30.

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