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title = "Set WD MyCloud as Lomorage redundancy backup disk on Windows"
tags = ["WD", "MyCloud", "Redundancy"]
categories = ["BLOG"]
date = "2023-02-22T13:43:40"
banner = "/img/blog/set_wd_as_backup/set_wd_as_backup.jpg"
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**Setup WD MyCloud as Lomorage Redundancy backup disk on Windows.**

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Table of Contents
=================
- [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
- [1. Mount WD MyCloud as Windows Disk](#1-mount-wd-mycloud-as-windows-disk)
- [2. Setup Redundancy Backup](#2-setup-redundancy-backup)
- [3. Test redundancy backup and trouble shooting](#3-test-redundancy-backup-and-trouble-shooting)
- [If you meet some issue like the below:](#if-you-meet-some-issue-like-the-below)
- [Solution is:](#solution-is)



# 1. Mount WD MyCloud as Windows Disk

The detail introduction from WD is here: __[How to mount WD MyCloud on Windows](https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detailweb/a_id/25436/h/p2#subject2)__

Below picture is my case:

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# 2. Setup Redundancy Backup

Open Lomorage Photo Assistant in your Windows, and set as blow:

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# 3. Test redundancy backup and trouble shooting

And click the **"Start redundancy backup..."** button to see the files will copy from
D:\imagebk to W:\wd-test.

## If you meet some issue like the below:

```
rdiff-backup.exe --force -v5 --print-statistics D:/imagebk W:/
WARNING: this command line interface is deprecated and will disappear, start using the new one as described with '--new --help'.
* Using repository 'W:/'
NOTE: Found interrupted initial backup in data directory W:/rdiff-backup-data. Removing...
* Hardlinks disabled by default on Windows
* Unable to import module (py)xattr. Extended attributes not supported on filesystem at path D:/imagebk
* Unable to import module posix1e from pylibacl package. POSIX ACLs not supported on filesystem at path D:/imagebk
* -----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for source (read only) file system:
Access control lists Off
Extended attributes Off
Windows access control lists On
Case sensitivity Off
Escape DOS devices On
Escape trailing spaces On
Mac OS X style resource forks Off
Mac OS X Finder information Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
* Directories on file system at path W:/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0 are not fsyncable. Assuming it's unnecessary.
* Unable to import module (py)xattr. Extended attributes not supported on filesystem at path W:/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
* Unable to import module posix1e from pylibacl package. POSIX ACLs not supported on filesystem at path W:/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
* -----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for destination (read/write) file system:
Ownership changing Off
Hard linking On
fsync() directories Off
Directory inc permissions Off
High-bit permissions On
Symlink permissions Off
Extended filenames On
Windows reserved filenames On
Access control lists Off
Extended attributes Off
Windows access control lists On
Case sensitivity Off
Escape DOS devices On
Escape trailing spaces On
Mac OS X style resource forks Off
Mac OS X Finder information Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
* Backup: escape_dos_devices = False
* Backup: escape_trailing_spaces = False
* Enabled use_compatible_timestamps
NOTE: Symbolic links excluded by default on Windows
* Given repository doesn't need to be regressed
NOTE: Starting mirror from source path D:/imagebk to destination path W:/
* Processing file .
* Processing file .WDSyncHistory
* Processing file .WDSyncHistory/.WD Hidden Files
* Processing file Garbage Dispenser2.mp4
* Cleaning up
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "rdiffbackup\run.py", line 170, in <module>
File "rdiffbackup\run.py", line 37, in main
File "rdiffbackup\run.py", line 105, in main_run
File "rdiffbackup\actions\backup.py", line 159, in run
File "rdiff_backup\backup.py", line 39, in mirror_compat200
File "rdiff_backup\backup.py", line 197, in patch
File "rdiff_backup\rorpiter.py", line 142, in __call__
File "rdiff_backup\rorpiter.py", line 179, in _finish_branches
File "rdiff_backup\backup.py", line 641, in end_process_directory
File "rdiff_backup\rpath.py", line 807, in rmdir
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: b'W:/.WDSyncHistory/.WD Hidden Files'
[2528] Failed to execute script 'run' due to unhandled exception!
```

## Solution is:

**Please go to W:\wd-test, to remove some hidden files.**

**Support**: [email protected] or [email protected].
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