Completing the backup

The WD SmartWare™ software reports the completion of a backup with one of three messages on the initial Backup screen:

• Backup accomplished successfully—The backup was a complete success, and all of the files or categories of files were backed up to your My Book or My Passport drive.

  For a category backup, all of the files categories in the content gauge for your computer's internal hard drive and your My Book or My Passport drive are shown in the same shade of blue.

• Partial backup accomplished—Some of your files were not backed up, and a warning message displays the number of files involved.

  For a category backup, the representations of the files that were not backed up remain yellow/amber in the content gauge for your computer's internal hard drive.

  Click the View files link to display a list of the files and reasons that they were not backed up.

• Backup canceled—You clicked Stop Backup to stop the backup.

IMPORTANT! The appearance of a Caution message indicating that your My Book or My Passport drive is full means that there is not enough free space on the drive to complete the backup operation. The best solution would be to relegate the drive to long-term archive storage and:

1. Click the WD SmartWare Help tab.
2. Click the WD Store link at the lower-right corner of the screen to display the Western Digital Online Store website.
3. Click External Hard Drives and select the drive that best meets your future needs.