Instructions
BACKING UP AND RETRIEVING FILES
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MY CLOUD USER MANUAL
9. In the Local Path field, enter a path for your backup on your My Cloud server.
Click Browse to browse to a location for your backup on the device.
(Example Volume_1/backup)
10. Click the toggle button to activate the Autoupdate feature. This automatically updates your
backup based on a schedule you create.
If you activate the Autoupdate feature:
- Select the Autoupdate schedule: Daily, Weekly, or Monthly
- Select the Autoupdate Time from the drop-down menu (Daily option).
Select Autoupdate Date and Time from the drop-down menus (Weekly or Monthly
option).
11. If you don’t select Autoupdate, in the Backup Now field, indicate whether you want to begin
the backup now.
Select Ye s to begin your backup now.
12. Click Next.
13. Review your settings and click Finish. Your Amazon S3 Cloud backup is created. The new
job displays in the Amazon S3 Queue section of the Amazon S3 Backup page.
14. Access your Amazon S3 Cloud backup bucket to view your device backups.
Camera Backups
Camera backups allow you to backup the data on your camera to the My Cloud device. Once
downloaded, users can navigate to the location where the camera data was saved to access the data,
if they have access to that share.
Creating a Camera Backup
Use the following steps to back up your camera to the My Cloud device.
1. Ensure that your camera is connected to your My Cloud device.
2. On the Navigation bar, click Backups to display the Backups screen.
Backup Type From the drop-down menu, select the type of backup you’d like to
perform. Options include:
• Overwriting existing file(s): Overwrites files in the target
folder that have the identical name as your source file.
• Full Backup: Creates a separate folder containing all of the
backup data each time the backup is performed.
• Incremental Backup: Overwrites files with source files that
are newer then the target files.