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Two questions copy Mycloud to USB HDD

Good, I have several doubts …

  1. When backed up from NAS to USB, I mean the hard drive to which the mirrored copy (USB) would be made. This hard disk, I tried to encrypt it with Mac Disk Utility in Mac format. The problem is that when I connect it to make the mirror copy, it does not ask me for the password, nor does it recognize the partition, it only recognizes the hard disk as such Backup - USB NAS - Select destination) but without the complete partition, it only recognizes it. My question is obviously if I copy Mycloud NAS to USB (mirror hard drive), obviously there will have sensitive data and mirror copy should also be protected. How do I protect the files on the mirror hard drive and have it recognized in Backup to create a workflow?

Summary: I want to make an exact copy of Mycloud through the USB to NAS copy option, but I want to protect this copy with password. How can I protect the mirrored hard drive with password?

  1. If I back up mirror (without being encrypted as I want in step 1.), the maximum minutes from wdmycloud.local that I can be without blocking the session and can configure on that web is 30 min. This leads to that while making that mirror copy, at 30 minutes without touching the computer, tell me that the copy has been interrupted because the session has expired, and there is no option in setting to put it> 30min, having to log in again And be pending so that the session does not expire, otherwise the copy stops. How can I prevent the session from expiring so that it does not interrupt the backup?

Thanks, best regard.

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