Western Digital My Book Duo User Manual - Manual (Page 23)

MY BOOK DUO
USER MANUAL
WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE FUNCTIONAL OVERVIEW – 18
Note: In addition to the detailed Help tab information, each
WD SmartWare display provides easy access to abbreviated
online help to quickly guide you through your backup, retrieve,
and settings tasks. Whenever you are uncertain about what to do,
just click the info/online help icon in the upper-right corner of the
display:
To close the info/online help screen after reading the online help, click the
X icon in the upper-right corner of the help screen.
Home Tab Display
Use the Home tab display to view device content gauges and select:
The source device or drive partition that has the files you want to back up
The target device or device partition/network share that you want to back up files to
or retrieve files from
See Figure 9 on page 19 and Table 1 on page 20 for a brief functional description of the
Home tab display.
Settings Buttons for opening dialogs to:
Specify the number of backup versions that you want to keep
for each file
Specify a different destination folder for retrieved files
Automatically check for WD SmartWare software updates
Configure a remote Dropbox account for access by the
WD SmartWare Pro software
See “Settings Tab Display” on page 30.
Help Instant access to:
Detailed information about backing up and retrieving files and
making your software setup selections
WD Customer Support and software update services
See “Help Tab Display” on page 31.
In each display, the WD SmartWare software changes the names and graphic images to match
the hardware configuration of the connected devices.
The . . . tab display Provides . . .