User's Manual

USING APPS TO BACK UP AND MANAGE THE DRIVE
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MY PASSPORT WIRELESS
USER MANUAL
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Help icon —Each WD SmartWare page provides easy access to online help
information to quickly guide you through your backup, retrieve, and settings tasks.
Whenever you are uncertain about what to do, just click the info/online Help icon in
the upper-right corner of any page.
To close the info/help page after reading the online Help, click the X
button in the
upper-right corner of the page.
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Help tab—This tab on the WD SmartWare pages provides more detailed Help. For
information on using the Help tab, see Using Windows 7 Backup and Windows 8
File History, below.
Please refer to the WD SmartWare online Help for further instructions.
Using Windows 7 Backup and Windows 8 File History
If you choose not to use WD SmartWare software for backing up files to the My Passport
Wireless drive, you can use Windows 7 Backup and Restore or Windows 8 File History.
Note: The My Passport Wireless drive does not support Windows Vista Backup
and Restore.
Use WD SmartWare software for backing up files to the
drive.
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Windows Backup for Windows 7 — (Professional and Ultimate versions) enable
you to back up media files, documents, email, and other personal files to your My
Passport wireless drive. If you lose files or your system crashes, you can easily
restore the files to your PC. For more information on Windows Backup, consult
Microsoft's documentation.
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Windows 8 File History — Automatically backs up media files, documents, email,
and other personal files to your My Passport Wireless drive. If you lose files or your
system crashes, you can easily restore the files to your Windows computer. For
more information on Windows 8 File History, consult Microsoft's documentation.
Backing up a Mac Computer
The Apple Time Machine is a built-in feature on Mac OS X Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Lion,
and Snow Leopard computers that can back up everything on your computer: music,
photos, documents, applications, emails, and system files.
The My Passport Wireless drive can store these backups, so that if your hard drive or
operating system should crash, or you lose a file, you can easily restore it to your computer.
You can also specify the maximum amount of space you’d like to use on your Time Machine
to back up your files. Consult Apple Time Machine documentation.