WD Backup 1.9.117.6823 on 8TB MyBook (WDBBGB0080HBK-N/A) stuck on 41% of 6.22GiB data

Hello,

since 8 hours or so WD Backup is working on saving c:\users<username> 6.22 GiB (SSD), and still stuck on 41% (2.61GiB).

S.M.A.R.T.-Status is ok.

The drive is exfat formatted.

smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [i686-w64-mingw32-w10(64)-b18362] (sf-6.6-1)
Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     WDC HGST Ultrastar He10
Device Model:     WDC WD80EZAZ-11TDBA0
Serial Number:    7HK62DDF
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 257ed09bf
Firmware Version: 83.H0A83
User Capacity:    8.001.563.222.016 bytes [8,00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    5400 rpm
Form Factor:      3.5 inches
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ACS-2, ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Mon Nov 04 11:43:43 2019 MZ
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
AAM feature is:   Unavailable
APM level is:     254 (maximum performance)
Rd look-ahead is: Enabled
Write cache is:   Enabled
DSN feature is:   Unavailable
ATA Security is:  Disabled, NOT FROZEN [SEC1]

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x80)	Offline data collection activity
					was never started.
					Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0)	The previous self-test routine completed
					without error or no self-test has ever 
					been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection: 		(   93) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: 			 (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
					Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
					Suspend Offline collection upon new
					command.
					Offline surface scan supported.
					Self-test supported.
					No Conveyance Self-test supported.
					Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003)	Saves SMART data before entering
					power-saving mode.
					Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01)	Error logging supported.
					General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time: 	 (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 (1079) minutes.
SCT capabilities: 	       (0x003d)	SCT Status supported.
					SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
					SCT Feature Control supported.
					SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAGS    VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     PO-R--   100   100   016    -    0
  2 Throughput_Performance  --S---   128   128   054    -    116
  3 Spin_Up_Time            POS---   180   180   024    -    359 (Average 372)
  4 Start_Stop_Count        -O--C-   100   100   000    -    804
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   PO--CK   100   100   005    -    0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         -O-R--   100   100   067    -    0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   --S---   128   128   020    -    18
  9 Power_On_Hours          -O--C-   100   100   000    -    624
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        -O--C-   100   100   060    -    0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       -O--CK   100   100   000    -    789
 22 Helium_Level            PO---K   100   100   025    -    100
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count -O--CK   100   100   000    -    809
193 Load_Cycle_Count        -O--C-   100   100   000    -    809
194 Temperature_Celsius     -O----   144   144   000    -    45 (Min/Max 14/56)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count -O--CK   100   100   000    -    0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  -O---K   100   100   000    -    0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   ---R--   100   100   000    -    0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    -O-R--   200   200   000    -    0
                            ||||||_ K auto-keep
                            |||||__ C event count
                            ||||___ R error rate
                            |||____ S speed/performance
                            ||_____ O updated online
                            |______ P prefailure warning

General Purpose Log Directory Version 1
SMART           Log Directory Version 1 [multi-sector log support]
Address    Access  R/W   Size  Description
0x00       GPL,SL  R/O      1  Log Directory
0x01           SL  R/O      1  Summary SMART error log
0x02           SL  R/O      1  Comprehensive SMART error log
0x03       GPL     R/O      1  Ext. Comprehensive SMART error log
0x04       GPL     R/O    256  Device Statistics log
0x04       SL      R/O    255  Device Statistics log
0x06           SL  R/O      1  SMART self-test log
0x07       GPL     R/O      1  Extended self-test log
0x08       GPL     R/O      2  Power Conditions log
0x09           SL  R/W      1  Selective self-test log
0x0c       GPL     R/O   5501  Pending Defects log
0x10       GPL     R/O      1  NCQ Command Error log
0x11       GPL     R/O      1  SATA Phy Event Counters log
0x12       GPL     R/O      1  SATA NCQ Non-Data log
0x13       GPL     R/O      1  SATA NCQ Send and Receive log
0x15       GPL     R/W      1  Rebuild Assist log
0x21       GPL     R/O      1  Write stream error log
0x22       GPL     R/O      1  Read stream error log
0x24       GPL     R/O    256  Current Device Internal Status Data log
0x25       GPL     R/O    256  Saved Device Internal Status Data log
0x30       GPL,SL  R/O      9  IDENTIFY DEVICE data log
0x80-0x9f  GPL,SL  R/W     16  Host vendor specific log
0xe0       GPL,SL  R/W      1  SCT Command/Status
0xe1       GPL,SL  R/W      1  SCT Data Transfer

SMART Extended Comprehensive Error Log Version: 1 (1 sectors)
No Errors Logged

SMART Extended Self-test Log Version: 1 (1 sectors)
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00%       493         -
# 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00%       114         -
# 3  Short offline       Completed without error       00%         4         -
# 4  Short offline       Completed without error       00%         4         -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

SCT Status Version:                  3
SCT Version (vendor specific):       256 (0x0100)
SCT Support Level:                   0
Device State:                        Active (0)
Current Temperature:                    45 Celsius
Power Cycle Min/Max Temperature:     44/48 Celsius
Lifetime    Min/Max Temperature:     14/56 Celsius
Under/Over Temperature Limit Count:   0/0

SCT Temperature History Version:     2
Temperature Sampling Period:         1 minute
Temperature Logging Interval:        1 minute
Min/Max recommended Temperature:      0/65 Celsius
Min/Max Temperature Limit:           -40/70 Celsius
Temperature History Size (Index):    128 (96)

Index    Estimated Time   Temperature Celsius
  97    2019-11-04 09:36    44  *************************
 ...    ..(  7 skipped).    ..  *************************
 105    2019-11-04 09:44    44  *************************
 106    2019-11-04 09:45    45  **************************
 ...    ..(116 skipped).    ..  **************************
  95    2019-11-04 11:42    45  **************************
  96    2019-11-04 11:43    44  *************************

SCT Error Recovery Control:
           Read: Disabled
          Write: Disabled

Device Statistics (GP/SMART Log 0x04) not supported

SATA Phy Event Counters (GP Log 0x11)
ID      Size     Value  Description
0x0001  2            0  Command failed due to ICRC error
0x0002  2            0  R_ERR response for data FIS
0x0003  2            0  R_ERR response for device-to-host data FIS
0x0004  2            0  R_ERR response for host-to-device data FIS
0x0005  2            0  R_ERR response for non-data FIS
0x0006  2            0  R_ERR response for device-to-host non-data FIS
0x0007  2            0  R_ERR response for host-to-device non-data FIS
0x0008  2            0  Device-to-host non-data FIS retries
0x0009  2            1  Transition from drive PhyRdy to drive PhyNRdy
0x000a  2            2  Device-to-host register FISes sent due to a COMRESET
0x000b  2            0  CRC errors within host-to-device FIS
0x000d  2            0  Non-CRC errors within host-to-device FIS

Yesterday it achieved to backup until 43 or 44% and I did something else and was away from keyboard and noticed, that it then didn’t show no longer the progress bar and didn’t show a red triangle exclamation mark to say something went wrong.

So I was curious, because it didn’t show any information on a succeeded backup process, and there is no backup history or information at all. I decided to backup directly again. Also I don’t know if the backups are full, differential or incremental …

But now it hangs at 41% again for more than 14 hours.

But today it offers version 1.9.7215.6356 instead of 1.9.117.6823. So I’ll try it again after manually upgrade the App (because the App Manager Tab in WD Discovery doesn’t work on upgrade, only on notification).

So I’ll stop it again, upgrade and show how it’ll go then.

There is no way to update the App manually, because I cannot find a download …

Hm, not readable. Here’s the Link: Software and Firmware Downloads | WD Support
(Ah, okay with left mouse click and ‘show graphic’ I can magnify it in firefox the screenshot and read it.)

Here you can see, that the WD Discovery App in it’s notification tab mention new updates, with different version numbers of the downloadable Installers from the website.

WD Backup currently installed

WD Drive Utilities currently installed

So maybe later this week …

Wondering if you ever got this to work. I have a 3TB version of same drive and first backup worked fine. Unplugged it; put it in my safe and now ready for another backup but it hangs at 4% and after 12 hours or more, same status. Can’t see by looking at the files on the drive that there are any new folders or other indications that it’s done its job. This should be simple stuff. I hope you were able to get it working. I am thinking of switching to another brand since this is ridiculous.

I finally got it to work after several attempts. I had to delete the software from my computer and reinstall it.