Western Digital WDBACG0020HCH User Manual - Page 32

WD SmartWare Home Screen, Backup, Retrieve, Settings

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BACKING UP/RETRIEVING (WD SMARTWARE) WD SmartWare Home Screen The Home screen is the first screen you see after you launch WD SmartWare: The WD SmartWare Home screen provides four tabs: „ Home-Provides a Content Gauge showing the capacity of each My Book Live drive on your network. „ Backup-Manages existing backups or creates new backups of your important data, including movies, music, documents, e-mail, and photos. „ Retrieve-Brings back valuable data that has been lost or overwritten. „ Settings-Manages backup parameters, searches for updates, and provides a link to the My Book Live Dashboard, where you can configure the drive. In the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive, all of your files that are available for backup display against a blue background in six categories where: This file category Documents Mail Music Movies Pictures Other Includes files with these extensions .doc, .txt, .htm, .html, .ppt, .xls, .xml, and other document extensions .mail, .msg, .pst., and other mail extensions .mp3, .wav, .wma, and other music extensions .avi, .mov, .mp4, and other movie extensions .gif, .jpg, .png, and other picture extensions Others that do not belong in the five main categories MY BOOK LIVE 27 USER MANUAL

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BACKING UP/RETRIEVING (WD SMARTWARE)
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MY BOOK LIVE
USER MANUAL
WD SmartWare Home Screen
The Home screen is the first screen you see after you launch WD SmartWare:
The WD SmartWare Home screen provides four tabs:
Home
—Provides a Content Gauge showing the capacity of each My Book
Live drive on your network.
Backup
—Manages existing backups or creates new backups of your
important data, including movies, music, documents, e-mail, and photos.
Retrieve
—Brings back valuable data that has been lost or overwritten.
Settings
—Manages backup parameters, searches for updates, and
provides a link to the My Book Live Dashboard, where you can configure the
drive.
In the Content Gauge for your computer’s hard drive, all of your files that are
available for backup display against a blue background in six categories where:
This file category
Includes files with these extensions
Documents
.doc, .txt, .htm, .html, .ppt, .xls, .xml, and other document
extensions
Mail
.mail, .msg, .pst., and other mail extensions
Music
.mp3, .wav, .wma, and other music extensions
Movies
.avi, .mov, .mp4, and other movie extensions
Pictures
.gif, .jpg, .png, and other picture extensions
Other
Others that do not belong in the five main categories