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Equipped with WD Backup software for Windows and Apple Time Machine compatibility for Mac, the My Book desktop hard drive can back up your photos, videos,. Mac OS X 10.5 or later; Windows XP, Windows Vista®, Windows 7 (requires reformatting) Note: Compatibility may vary depending on user's hardware configuration and operating system. In the box: Western Digital WDBYCC0020HBK My Book for Mac 2TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive - (Mac Formatted) USB Cable; AC Adapter.
The drive is the same height as its predecessor 6. All in all, SmartWare makes automatic backups simple and painless. When I spoke to WD a few weeks back, they were pretty adamant about erring on the side of total security. Once installed, SmartWare will scan your computer defaults to drive C: WD SmartWare backup software: Finally, with the same ease that you can backup your files, SmartWare provides a dead simple retrieval function.
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SmartWare will continuously update the graphical representation with the status of wd my book essentials backup. Generally speaking, the drive is pretty quiet, mg there is the usual buzz and hum during large backups.
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Once installed, SmartWare will scan your wd my book essentials defaults to drive C: WD SmartWare backup software: By default, the software is set to run as a low priority while your machine is in use and will speed up when the machine idles. The drive is the same height as essemtials predecessor 6. Thus, it came as no surprise when Western Essenntials recently overhauled its entire external drive lineup with password protection, encryption, and built-in backup software.
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In other words, you are the only person who knows the password.
Review: Western Digital My Book Essential with SmartWare backup software – TechCrunch
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The drive also has a new illuminated capacity gauge and an icon showing whether the drive has been locked via password with encryption.
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In this previous article I describe how to backup your computer using Apple’s Time Machine and an external hard drive. Here’s how to do it using a network hard drive:
Step 1. Throw out your My Book Live.
Step 2. Go and buy an Apple Time Capsule
Step 3. Turn on Time-Machine.
I kid you not! I am sorry if anyone followed these instructions below. The My Book Live has been more trouble than it’s worth.
1. The drive stopped working in under 1 year.
2. After many calls to Western Digital they still havn’t provided a warranty replacement.
3. They use some weird custom drive format that can’t be read by OSX or Ubuntu or Windows, so you cna’t get the data off your backup if it crashes.
I’ll leave this article below for your information, but DON’T TO IT!!!
It’s worth paying more and using Apple’s time capsule for peace of mind and better support should something go wrong, plus it’s easier to set up.
Time Machine is a piece of Apple software, but you need to have some hardware for it to back up onto. One option is external firewire or USB hard drive – a good option if you only have one computer. A second option is to run it on a networked external storage device. That means that it plugs into your network, via an ethernet cable, and any Macintosh on your network can backup to it. This is how Apple’s ‘ Time Capsule’ works. It’s a great option if you have more than one Macintosh in your house. There are non-Apple solutions available – this article explains how to set up Apple’s Time Machine on a Western Digital My Book Live.
1. Buy a My Book Live. I picked up a 2 Tetrabyte one up for $221 from amazon.com*, shipped to Australia for $317 – compare that to Apple’s Time Capsule at $649, there’s quite a difference. Apple sell the Western Digital MyBook on their website, but not the networked MyBook Live.
2. Assuming you already have a network – some kind of a router connected to the Internet and connected to your home computers – plug the ethernet cable from the My Book Life into your router, then plug the power adapter in. At this stage the My-book live that I had needed firmware updates and this took a bit of fiddling. I won’t explain it here, but basically I needed to login and tell it to upgrade it’s firmware automatically from the web. The manual firmware upgrade did not work.
3. Go to System Preferences/ Time Machine, or use the menu Go/Applications/Time Machine
Click ‘Select Disk…’
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4. There should be a disc that automatically appears that says on “MyBookLive – backup” – select this disc and click ‘Use for Backup’.
When it asks you for a password, select the ‘Guest’ option.
5. Make sure the time machine slider is set to ‘On’ and Time Machine will automatically backup your machine every hour, every day and every week.
6. Go to System Preferences, Spotlight, and click on the ‘Privacy’ tab. Click the plus button and select The My Book Live is a great solution because it comes ready to work with Time Machine out of the box. All you have to do is plug it into your ethernet router and your computer will find it as easily as an external hard drive.
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Replyadminsays:May 29, 2011 at 2:12 pmSelecting MyBookLive in the Spotlight Privacy Tab tells Spotlight to NOT to include your Backup in its search results otherwise you will see two of everything in every search – the original and the backup.
OS X should do this automatically – not include Time Machine results in Spotlight searches – but there have been reports of Time Machine results appearing in Spotlight searches so this is just a precaution to make sure it doesn’t happen.
I have this same set up and tried to restore from it yesterday and received a you do not have permission message (i am the administrator, owner and only user). I called Apple and was told that time machine would not now work with a non apple network drive and had to use either a USB or Firewire drive. I called Western Digital and they did not dispute the question, but offered to replace my new My Book Live with a My Book Studio LX. I do not understand why it would not work as i can easily see the drive and the contents of both the public folder and the backup that were taken. Any ideas?
Replytomsays:February 27, 2012 at 7:27 amhow did this end for you? I have purchased a mybook live to use with my imac but will try tot get a refund if it will not work with timemachine
Replyjohnsonsays:July 30, 2015 at 9:22 amyou can try to get the refund but do your research very well
AdBumpsays:July 23, 2011 at 8:15 pmI have the same set up problem too – trying to run Time Machine on MyBook Live and not working at all. I’m also backing up another laptop (PC) onto the NAS and it seems to work ok. Just seems that TM isn’t working properly. Would love to hear ideas on this too!
Replyhanssays:July 27, 2011 at 4:12 pmI got the same problem.
Trying to fix it for hours…
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http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/search/1/a_id/7081/c/130/p/247,335
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The Problem is caused by Lion.
It´s not just Lion. I have Snow Leopard and it doesn´t work. Time Machine starts up but it never finishes. I´ve tried several times but never succeed to make a working Time Machine copy on the My Book Live
ReplyAlannasays:January 5, 2013 at 9:48 pmThis is exactly what happens for me. Did you ever get it to work? It keeps saying “backup delayed, waiting to backup” after it has been backing up GBs for several minutes/an hour.
ReplyJay Ksays:November 28, 2011 at 6:23 amI am also having the same problem, backing up my new imac (1 month old) with lion on to a WD mybooklive that I previously used to successfully back up 2 windows PCs running Vista (no probs). I was initially planning to reset the WD drive to factory settings and then try the time machie back up- my reasoning being that mac and windows back ups on same drive causes the problem. I then thought I might just call the mac support people! :-)
Replywindowersays:January 2, 2012 at 6:14 pmthank you for info. you give me that i search all day
ReplyWaynesays:February 27, 2012 at 8:44 pmTime machine DOES work with non apple network drives, at least it works with MyBook Live. Make sure you have the latest software update on the MyBook Live – see the link in the comments above.
ReplyRGsays:April 17, 2012 at 8:08 amHow long does the first back up take? I have about 80GB to back up and the indication is that it will take weeks to complete the first backup. I have simply connected the myBookLive to the router via ethernet and the macbook pro to the router via ethernet.
ReplyWaynesays:April 18, 2012 at 5:28 amMine took a day or so.
ReplyRabihsays:September 1, 2013 at 12:34 pmHello, Kutools for mac.
any idea how to backup specific folders on Mac on the mybook live duo? i could back up full pc on timemachine or so however i can not access my files as photos and music and documents like i used to do when backing up a windows laptop.
i need to choose specific folder and back it up automatically as in when i add files to it it can automatically back them up to my book live duo and i can access them from there.
Thank you.
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