WD My Cloud home - backup automatically

It’d be nice if there was a feature to set an automatic backup of the whole My Cloud Home to an USB hard disk - for example, I would set it to back up the data once a week and it would be way better than doing it manually every time.

EDIT: I managed to work my way around this by using a spare laptop.
I installed an app called Cobian Backup, which I set up to make a mirror backup of the my cloud home onto a HDD every Sunday at midnight. I set up an event that makes the laptop go to sleep once the backup is finished. I also used Task Scheduler to wake up the laptop and restart it before the backup (so it’s not slow). So far it has been working very well.

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This is something I’m also looking for. Doing a manual backup is not efficient.

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try Free File Sync >> https://freefilesync.org/

Thank you for the information and advice!

That is disappointing that you actually need a computer to backup the My Cloud Home. Especially disappointing, seeing as this was a basic feature of the My Cloud. I will definitely be returning my My Cloud Home as soon as I receive it. I was under the impression that you’d be able to plug an external drive into the provided USB 3.0 port and set up automatic backups.