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Starting a Backup, Restoring Backed-Up Items, Open Time Machine Preferences, Back Up Now

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BACKING UP WITHOUT WD SMARTWARE To see information such as available capacity and the date and time of the oldest, latest, and next backup, select Open Time Machine Preferences on the Time Machine drop-down menu: Starting a Backup To start a backup at any time, select Back Up Now on the drop-down menu: Note: To delete Time Machine backups, use WD My Book Live Dashboard. (See "Viewing a List of Backups" on page 88.) Restoring Backed-Up Items You may sometimes want to restore files and other items backed up on the My Book Live drive. For example, you may have lost a file, or you want to see files from a week ago. You can restore individual items, multiple items, shares, or if your system crashes, your entire hard drive. To restore backed-up items to your hard drive: 1. Open the window on your computer where you want the item restored. For example, if you are restoring a document, open the Documents folder. (If you are restoring an item on your desktop, you do not need to open a window.) MY BOOK LIVE 51 USER MANUAL

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BACKING UP WITHOUT WD SMARTWARE
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MY BOOK LIVE
USER MANUAL
To see information such as available capacity and the date and time of the
oldest, latest, and next backup, select
Open Time Machine Preferences
on
the Time Machine drop-down menu:
Starting a Backup
To start a backup at any time, select
Back Up Now
on the drop-down menu:
Note:
To delete Time Machine backups, use WD My Book Live Dashboard. (See
“Viewing a List of Backups” on page 88.)
Restoring Backed-Up Items
You may sometimes want to restore files and other items backed up on the My Book
Live drive. For example, you may have lost a file, or you want to see files from a week
ago. You can restore individual items, multiple items, shares, or if your system
crashes, your entire hard drive.
To restore backed-up items to your hard drive:
1.
Open the window on your computer where you want the item restored. For
example, if you are restoring a document, open the Documents folder. (If you are
restoring an item on your desktop, you do not need to open a window.)