birdyx
January 10, 2015, 10:07am
1
How do you make a incremental usb backup with the wdmcex2 to a external hdd?
If I make a backup, and next time I want to backup new files, how do you do that?
With every try I get an error, and the incremental backup makes a new empty file on my external usb hdd.
And after that it stops with a ‘backup fails’.
What do I do wrong?
Do I have to throw away the instruction of the first backup?
Or just click on the old one again to restart?
No information in manual.
I have totally restart backups several times, and that takes 2/3 days every time!
So not working here.
Any suggestions are welcome.
ArMak
January 10, 2015, 6:54pm
2
Hi there and welcome to the WD community.
There is a option to automatically backup when the drive is connected so this should make the backup job continuous. On this case i recommend contacting support for further assistance on this matter:
http://support.wdc.com/country/index.asp?lang=en%22
birdyx
January 11, 2015, 10:07am
3
that option doesn’t work either!
a last question before contacting support:
what is ths best format for external usb drive?
i now use ntfs.
all i get is ‘backup failed!’
birdyx
January 11, 2015, 12:21pm
4
The problem with backing up my WDMCex2 to WD external usb drive is when i copy the drive entirely.
Then I allways end-up with a 'Backup Failed.
When I backup just one file (for example only my music files) then it ends up with a completed succesfull backup!
And I can backup a next file with succes!
But choosing the whole WD disk, I get an error again.
And I still can’t choose 2 or more files, only one or all!
Nothing changed with the last FW upgrade!
