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CONFIGURING SETTINGS Power Schedule Web Access Timeout The Power Schedule allows you to schedule shutdowns for your WD My Cloud device. 1. To enable/disable Power Schedule, click the toggle button. 2. Click Configure to customize your power schedule. 3. Use the slider bar next to each day of the week to configure the start and stop times for your device. • Click the power button next to the slider to shut down the device for 24-hours. 4. Click Save. Note: You can use WD Quick View to wake up the system. 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. Mac Backups This section of the General screen enables or disables Time Machine backups of Mac computers. Important: You must set a password for your Admin account in order to restore your Time Machine backups. To configure backup settings: 1. In the Mac Backups area, click the toggle button to enable Time Machine backups, if not previously enabled. 2. Click the Configure link to display the Time Machine Settings dialog. 3. From the Select a Share drop-down list, select a share you'd like to use to back up your Mac data. 4. In the Maximum Size field, move the slider to indicate the maximum value you'd like to use for your backup. Note: Increasing the maximum backup value after the initial backup has no effect on existing backups. WD recommends leaving this setting at the maximum value for your initial backup. After the first backup is complete, you can change the backup size by dragging the Maximum Size slider. 5. Click Save. Important: Once Time Machine begins to back up your files to a selected share, we recommend that you continue to back up to that share. Switching shares generates a new backup file which will not contain your previously saved information. WD MY CLOUD USER MANUAL  80

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CONFIGURING SETTINGS
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WD MY CLOUD USER MANUAL
Mac Backups
This section of the General screen enables or disables Time Machine backups of Mac
computers.
Important:
You must set a password for your Admin account in order to restore
your Time Machine backups.
To configure backup settings:
1.
In the Mac Backups area, click the toggle button to enable Time Machine backups,
if not previously enabled.
2.
Click the
Configure
link to display the Time Machine Settings dialog.
3.
From the
Select a Share
drop-down list, select a share you’d like to use to back up
your Mac data.
4.
In the Maximum Size field, move the slider to indicate the maximum value you’d like to
use for your backup.
Note:
Increasing the maximum backup value after the initial backup has no effect
on existing backups. WD recommends leaving this setting at the maximum
value for your initial backup. After the first backup is complete, you can
change the backup size by dragging the Maximum Size slider.
5.
Click
Save
.
Important:
Once Time Machine begins to back up your files to a selected share,
we recommend that you continue to back up to that share. Switching
shares generates a new backup file which will not contain your
previously saved information.
Power Schedule
The Power Schedule allows you to schedule shutdowns
for your WD My Cloud device.
1.
To enable/disable Power Schedule, click the toggle
button.
2.
Click
Configure
to customize your power schedule.
3.
Use the slider bar next to each day of the week to
configure the start and stop times for your device.
•
Click the power button next to the slider to shut down
the device for 24-hours.
4.
Click
Save
.
Note:
You can use WD Quick View to wake up the system.
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.