User's Manual

BACKING UP AND RETRIEVING FILES

WD MY CLOUD USER MANUAL 

The WD My Cloud device supports the following formats for externally attached USB drives:

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FAT32

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NTFS (read and write capability)

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HFS+J

WARNING! Mounting or ejecting a USB dr

ive while performing an NFS

or AFP file transfer will interrupt the file transfer process.

Creating a USB Backup

There are two ways to create a USB backup with your My Cloud device:

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Back USB port backups: Use the ports on the back of your WD My Cloud device

to backup the data on your USB port to your WD My Cloud device, or to backup

data on your WD MY Cloud device to the inserted USB port. (See “Creating Back

USB Port Backups” on page 48.)

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Front USB port with USB Copy button: Backs up all of the information on

inserted USB device to your WD My Cloud device. (See “Creating Front USB Port

Backups with USB Copy Button” on page 49.)

Creating Back USB Port Backups

Use the following steps to back up your data on your WD My Cloud device to a USB device

or to backup your USB device data to your WD My Cloud device.

Note: This information is applicable only for the USB ports on the back of your

WD My Cloud device. See “Creating Front USB Port Backups with USB

Copy Button” on page 49 for information on creating a USB backup copy

using the USB port on the front of your device.

1. On the Navigation bar, click Backups to display the Backups screen.

2. Click USB Backups, if not already selected.

3. Click Cr

eate Job.

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

Job Name Enter a Job Name for your backup.