Is there a workaround? Possibly, but it would most likely require the use of SSH and using scripting to automate using the copy or rsync command. See the following links for more discussion.
https://community.wd.com/t/happy-accident-includes-an-alternative-to-safepoint/96152
https://community.wd.com/t/alternative-to-safepoint-reposted/140685
Is WD working on the feature? Who knows, you’d have to contact WD Support and ask them. This is mostly a user to user support forum. Most here are not WD employees.
Feel free to complain in the following Cloud Ideas thread over this missing feature in the v2.x firmware on the single bay My Cloud’s…
https://community.wd.com/t/request-for-scheduled-usb-backups-from-nas-to-usb/150539
The lack of a scheduler option for USB backups in the v2.x single bay My Cloud firmware is a common complaint. One can find additional discussion on it by using the forum search feature, magnifying glass icon upper right.
