Best Practices for backing up laptops and streaming the backed up data

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If you switched to a ‘decent backup tool’, you wouldn’t need to use the WD tool…

But, if that’s what you’re using, I recall that it creates a backup directory for each device you’re backing up. If you set it to back up the media folders on each PC, you can simply point Twonky to the relevant folders in the backup locations. Then you won’t have any unnecessary duplicates, and your will be able to serve media as a combined library.

See “Q. Where should I put my media so Twonky finds it?” in:

'[FAQ] Twonky DLNA Media Server Setup & Use

Some Frequently Asked Questions Regarding Twonky, And Some Answers The MyCloud includes a Twonky DLNA Media Server. Sadly it doesn’t seem very well integrated into the MyCloud, and the two fight for supremacy. I’ve spent a long time trying to understand how it works, and reading the forum, I see many other people also have trouble with it. So I thought that, rather than trying to answer these questions individually, I’d try to write an FAQ covering the things I’ve found, and the problems I or …

You would simply have a number of file locations specified as containing ‘Music’:

/FredBackup/<media path>/Music Music
/BobBackup/<media path>/Music Music
/JillBackup/<media path>/Music Music

It would be a good idea to read the rest of the FAQ to find out how to stop MyCloud breaking your settings every time it reboots…