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Originally Posted by ~Ray
I do not know why it asked for a floppy disc, so do not worry when / if it does that for you. If you chose Western Digital to save your backup to, then it's there.
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A great reminder. You did one fourth of a backup, though. At the moment, you have a useless external drive full of inaccessible and possibly corrupt data.
The floppy (or CD or thumb drive) that you chose to ignore is what lets you restore your system. I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say "I didn't know what it was, so I ignored the instructions / deleted it". Oh wait, I DO have lots of dollars from everyone who has said that to me - up to a thousand in one case, because when they ignore simple instructions rather than looking for more information they create expensive problems for me to fix. Go back and make some recovery media.
One you have the recovery media, you can TEST your backup. If you don't have a tested backup, you don't have a backup.
Then, consider what happens when you have a flood, fire, burglarly, hack, or whatever. Both drives, internal and external, will be burned/flooded/infected/stolen. So right now you have "undo", not backup. Unplug the external drive and drop it off in your safety deposit box on your way to get the other drive you'll rotate out. Once you have the recovery boot disk, you've tested it, and you've taken it offsite, THEN you have a backup.
At that point you have one single backup. A year from now, a year old backup will be worthless, so now you need a backup PROTOCOL. Automate it to run daily and test it monthly or so. THEN you're safe.
These are all lessons we've applied to the premiere server backup and disaster recovery system, Clonebox.