USB Backups

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud Mirror
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Hi,

A USB Hard Drive is always attached to my MyCloudMirror device.

I would like to have a recurring backup job to this USB device (for example - backup selected folders every night).

How can I do that?

Another question is - what is the difference between the “copy” option and the “synchronize”?

Thanks.

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Welcome to the WD Community.

Currently, there’s no option for the USB backups to setup a recurring backup.

As a recommendation, add this to the ideas board to see if that can be implemented.

Link to ideas:

http://community.wd.com/t5/Personal-Cloud-Ideas/idb-p/cloud_idea

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If you’re comfortable with Linux and SSH, you can do it via SSH with rsync and a crontab job.

But doing so is messing directly with the MCM OS, and isn’t supported by WD (and will probably void your warranty).