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Step 8 – Western Digital My Book Duo User Manual User Manual

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MY BOOK DUO
USER MANUAL

BACKING UP FILES

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8.

To backup selected 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.

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

c. In the backup by categories selection box:

Clear the check boxes for the categories of files that you want to exclude

from the backup.

Select the check boxes for the categories of files that you want to include in

the backup.

d. Click Apply Changes to create a custom backup plan and refresh the content

gauges.

e. Click Enable Backup to begin backing up the selected categories of files on the

selected backup source device, at the specified backup frequency, and skip to
step 11 on page 40.

Note:

If you configured a scheduled backup at step 5 on page 34, the

WD SmartWare software adds a backup schedule reminder button
to the Backup screen:

Clicking the reminder button displays the Scheduled Backup
Status dialog that shows the date and time of your next scheduled
backup, the last backup that might have been missed, and the last