MANAGING BACKUPS
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MY CLOUD USER MANUAL
Managing Backups
About Backups
Creating a USB Backup
Creating a Remote Backup
Creating a Internal Backup
Updating a Backup
Recovering a Backup
Deleting a Backup
About Backups
You can create a complete backup or snapshot of your My Cloud device and save it to an
another server on or outside your home network, to a USB drive attached to the USB
expansion port, or to another storage location within your My Cloud system.
Backups can be created or run on a schedule you define. They include a record of users,
data, and shares on your device; any backups created using WD SmartWare, Apple Time
Machine, Windows
7 Backup, or Windows 8 File History, and any associated device
configuration details. Creating a backup ensures that you can easily recover your data from
a specific point in time to a new My Cloud device in the unlikely event that your My Cloud
device fails.
Creating a USB Backup
To create a USB backup for your My Cloud device:
1. On the navigation bar, click
Backups
to display the Backup page:
2. Click USB Backups from the list of backup options.
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