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Advanced backup capabilities – Western Digital My Passport Elite User Manual User Manual

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MY PASSPORT ELITE

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5. If you clicked Pause Backup at step 3, the Stop backup? confirmation prompt

reminds you that the WD SmartWare software runs your backup job in the
background, so you can continue using you computer for other things during the
backup.

To continue, click either:

Continue Backup to disregard your pause request and resume the backup

Stop Backup to follow through with your pause request and stop the backup

6. Advanced Backup Capabilities

The advanced backup capabilities include:

• Selecting specific content to back up

• Changing the backup software settings:

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Choosing the number of backup versions to keep

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Pausing the backup until your computer is idle

Important:

Appearance of a Caution message indicating that your drive is full
means that there is not enough free space on the drive to complete
the backup.

The best long-term solution would be to relegate the drive to long-
term archive storage and:

a.

Click the Home tab to display the Home screen.

b.

Click the WDStore link in the WD Online box to view the WD Online
Store website.

c.

Click External Hard Drives and select the best drive to suit your
future requirements.