Information required about SmartWare settings please

1/ If I look at SETTINGS, there is nothing I can see to allow me to choose when a backup takes place nor how often they take place. I see I can set up a file history to specify how many backup versions I have, but surely frequency is important too. Where can I specify that?

2/ I have ‘backup versions’ set to 5, but cannot see how to tell when these 5 versions were taken…a similar problem to above. If I have 5 versions, it seems I can’t select which version to restore from…can I only restore from the most recent?

3/ In DIAGNOSTICS, I can see Quick SMART status,click this and the test passes. Click on Quick Drive Test and it starts but fails when it reaches 10%. I’ve tried that 4 times and it failed each time at 10%…just tried again and it failed at 40%. No information as to why. What does this mean? The Complete Drive Test fails too.

the settings do not allow to specify a backup

if you have a Mac, better use Time Machine and avoid the hasle

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thanks - yes, I’ll just carry on with Time Machine from now on.