Toshiba PH3200U-1EXB User Guide - Page 21

Toshiba Backup software 21 Waking up your Toshiba desktop external hard drive Your Toshiba drive will wake up whenever you or your system tries to access it. For example, when you double-click the drive icon or when you open or save a file to the drive. Toshiba Backup software With the included Toshiba Backup software, you can easily back up, or make copies of, your electronic files. You can choose to back up: ❖ your entire computer (includes your computer's startup disk and all attached internal and external storage devices), or ❖ your computer's startup disk only. Select this option if you wish to be able to restore your startup disk after a system failure, using the supplied Startup Disk Restore application. Note: Startup Disk Restore will not work if you select the Entire Computer option. ❖ all files of a certain type (for example, your music files), or all files in a specific folder or set of folders. You can specify that the backup task is executed immediately, or schedule it to occur at a later time or repeatedly at certain intervals. The software also enables you to restore your backup copies to the original storage device or to another storage device, and provides a synchronization utility for easily updating the files on one storage device to match the files stored on another device. Periodic back up of stored data It is important to periodically back up, or make copies of, your electronic files in case the storage device containing them fails, making the original files inaccessible. NOTE (Computers with Windows® 7 operating system only) Before using the Toshiba Backup software, make sure to set your computer's sleep function to Never. The sleep function in Windows® 7 can permanently disrupt disk read/write functions, such as data backups. If your computer (with Windows® 7 operating system) enters sleep mode during a backup operation, the process will fail to complete, even after your computer wakes up.