Western Digital WDBACX0010BBK User Manual - Page 19

MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL 13 Backing Up Your Computer Files This chapter includes the following topics: About Backing Up Your Computer Files Backing It All Up Advanced Backup Capabilities About Backing Up Your Computer Files The WD SmartWare software automatically and continuously backs up all of the content on your computer to your My Passport drive-music, movies, photos, documents, email, and other files. Note: One installation of the WD SmartWare software supports up to three backup drives that are configured with WD SmartWare software. After the WD SmartWare software categorizes the different types of content you have, simply clicking the Start Backup button will back all of them up. Or, you can select specific types of content to back up. After performing a backup, the WD SmartWare software protects your files by backing up any: • New file that is created on your computer or copied to your hard drive • Existing file that is changed in any way This protection is automatic-the WD SmartWare software does it for you without any action on your part-just make sure to leave your My Passport drive connected to your computer. Note: Automatic backup protection is continuous for as long as your My Passport drive is connected to your computer. Then, whenever you disconnect and reconnect the drive to your computer, the WD SmartWare software rescans your computer for new or changed files and resumes automatic, continuous backup as before. Additionally, the Backup screen (see Figure 9 on page 15) provides: • Content Gauges for your computer's disk drives, so you can see the number of files and the storage size for each content category • A Detailed View content box that you can use to select specific categories of files or folders to back up, with an Apply Changes button for implementing your selections • Start Backup and Stop Backup buttons for starting and stopping backups BACKING UP YOUR COMPUTER FILES - 14