User manual

BACKING UP AND RETRIEVING FILES

WD MY CLOUD USER MANUAL 

4. Click Create.

5. In the USB Backup Jobs area, click the Start Backup icon

to begin your backup.

The progress of the backup appears in the USB Backup Jobs area.

Recovering a Remote Backup

Use the following steps to recover the data you saved on your remote server. This process

recovers the data you saved on the remote server to your local server.

1. On the Remote Backup screen, under Remote Backup Jobs, click the Recover icon

next to the job you’d like

to view.

2. On the Recover screen, click OK. Y

our data recovery begins.

Internal Backups

Internal backups allow you to make backups of the existing content from one storage

location to another on your WD My Cloud device.

Creating an Internal Backup

Use the following steps to back up your WD My Cloud internally.

1. On the Navigation bar, click Back

ups to display the Backups screen.

2. Click Inter

nal Backups, if not already selected.

3. Click Create Job.

4. Enter the following information to create a Internal backup job:

Backup Type Indicate the type of backup you’d like to perform.

•Copy

• Synchronize

Recurrence If you’d like to use the Recurrence feature:

1. Click the toggle button to enable the Recurring Backup

ature.

2. Select the frequency of the backup: Daily, Weekly,

nthly.

3. Select a time (hour, AM/PM) from the drop-down menu.

Job Name Enter a Job Name for your internal backup.

Source Folder Click Br

owse and select the folder you'd like to back up.