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CONFIGURING SETTINGS

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USER MANUAL

View or change the following settings:

Mac Backups

This section of the General screen enables or disables Time Machine backups of Mac
computers.

Drive Sleep

Enabling this function allows the hard drives to go into
standby mode to save power after a designated period of
inactivity. Drive Sleep is enabled to sleep after
approximately 10 minutes by default.

• To enable/disable Drive Sleep, click the toggle button

.

LED

Enabling this function allows the device LEDs to go into
standby mode to save power. LED is enabled by default.

• To enable/disable LED, click the toggle button

.

Power Recovery

Automatically restarts your device from a previously
unexpected shutdown due to power failure. Power
Recovery is enabled by default.

Note:

If you disable this feature, your device will not automatically

power on after an unexpected shutdown.

• To enable/disable Power Recovery, click the toggle

button

.

Power Schedule

The Power Schedule allows you to schedule shutdowns
for your WD My Cloud Mirror device.

1.

To enable Power Schedule, click the toggle button

.

2.

Click Configure.

3.

Use the slider bar to configure the start and stop times for
your device.

4.

Click

to shut down the device for 24-hours.

5.

Click Save.

Note:

You can use WD Quick View to wake up the system. For

information and to download this app go to WD’s online
Learning Center.

Web Access
Timeout

Automatically logs you out of the system after a
designated amount of time.

• From the Web Access Timeout drop-down menu,

select an amount of time you’d like to use for your
system timeout. The system updates automatically.

Important: You must set a password for your Administrator account in order to

restore your Time Machine backups.