Western Digital My Book Live Duo User Manual - Manual (Page 35)

MY BOOK LIVE DUO
USER MANUAL
BACKING UP AND RETRIEVING FILES – 29
c. In the backup by files selection box, click the pointers to open the folder structure:
d. Select the check boxes for the individual files or folders that you want to back up.
Note that clicking a folder check box automatically selects all of the subfolders and
files in the folder.
e. Click Apply Changes to create a custom backup plan and update the content
gauge for your My Book Live Duo drive. Clicking Revert clears all of the check
boxes and displays the initial/default configuration.
f. Click Start Backup to begin backing up the selected files or folders and proceed to
step 10 on page 29.
10. During the backup:
• A progress bar and message at the top of the screen indicate the amount of data
that has been backed up.
• For a category backup, the blue background in the content gauge for your
computer’s internal hard drive changes to yellow/amber for all of the files that have
not yet been backed up.
• The gray background for categories or files in the content gauge for your
My Book Live Duo drive changes to blue as the backup completes.
• You can continue to set up your drive or perform any other functions because the
WD SmartWare software backs up your files in the background.
• The Start Backup toggle button changes to Stop Backup for stopping the backup.
• Appearance of a backup successfully finished message means that the backup
completed normally.
• If any files could not be backed up, the WD SmartWare software displays a:
- Caution message indicating the number of files involved
- View link that you can click to see a list of the files and the reasons they were not
backed up
Some applications and running processes can keep files from being backed up. If
you cannot determine why some of your files were not backed up, try:
- Saving and closing all of your open files