Safepoint works for some, and it doesn’t work for others. I’m in the former category in that Safepoint works for me backing up to an external USB hard drive. Plenty of others are in the latter catagory as evidenced by the many Safepoint problem threads in this subforum.
Some have taken to finding alternatives including using Rsync:
https://community.wd.com/t/happy-accident-includes-an-alternative-to-safepoint/96152
https://community.wd.com/t/alternative-to-safepoint-reposted/140685
