Best WD My Passport Ultra Backup Software for Portable Use

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• What is WD My Passport Ultra?
• WD Backup has ended its life span
• Best portable WD My Passport backup software
• How to backup files to WD My Passport Ultra (portable)
• The way forward

What is WD My Passport Ultra?

WD My Passport Ultra is the fastest portable external hard drives released by Western Digital company, which is one of the largest computer hard disk drive manufacturers, along with producing SSDs and flash memory devices.

My Passport Ultra comes with metal cover innovative style and comparatively slim & small which is easy to handle and keep in handy as compare to My Passport. And it supports USB 3.0 and is formatted for Windows 10 to with plug-and-play storage out of the box. Thus, it’s a great choice to backup files on any computer you want.

WD Backup has ended its life span 

Searching WD My Passport Ultra backup software online, you may be asked to download backup software from the WD official website, However, when you reach the My Password Ultra Downloads, you may find that the support for WD Backup has ended and it's suggested to use Acronis True Image for Western Digital. 

Is it Acronis True Image for Western Digital? The answer is NO. Some users report that the Acronis True Image for Western Digital is not working sometimes, such as, not responding. And it only works for the western digital branded storage (WD, SanDisk, G-Technology). And you need to install it on the target computer first if you want to backup files. 

Best portable WD My Passport backup software

You may already know that WD Backup and Acronis True Image for WD are not good choices for WD My Passport backup software. Here I strongly recommend you use AOMEI Backupper Technician or TechPlus. It's one of the best portable software for all Windows PCs and servers.

You only need to install this backup software once and create a portable version of it, then take it everywhere and perform any operation in the following, not just files. With it, you can do more than you think. 

You can backup system, disk, partition or files and make it automatically with daily/weekly/monthly schedule backup.

If you have an AOMEI account, you are able to backup files to AOMEI Cloud. It offers you 1TB free storage for 15 days after you sign up for an AOMEI account.

You can alleviate or completely solve backup disk full with multiple features, including incremental or differential backup, automatic backup cleanup, compression, splitting, intelligent sector backup, etc.

You can deploy image to multiple computers for batch configuration.

You can copy an exact copy of original files by file sync features, such as basic sync, real-time sync, mirror sync, two-way sync.

You can create a fast recovery solution by cloning a hard drive or only the system partition.

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How to backup files to WD My Passport Ultra (portable)

Before backup files with the best WD My Passport Ultra backup software, please prepare as follows.

• Connect WD My Passport Ultra on your computer via USB port. Be sure it’s recognized.
• Download AOMEI Backupper Technician and install it on your computer. 

Note that the version only supports Windows 11/10/8/7/XP/Vista. For server computers, you could use the technician plus version of AOMEI Backupper. Then, follow the steps below to create a portable version of this software and use it to backup files.

Create portable version of AOMEI Backupper

Step 1. Launch this software, go to Tools and select Create Portable Version.

Step 2. Select the removable device WD My Passport Ultra and click Start Creating>>.

Wait until the creating process completes, you will see an installation directory named AOMEI Backupper as well as a registry tool on the WD My Passport Ultra. Then, you can connect it to any computer and use it to backup whatever you want, such as, file, system, disk or specific partition.

Backup files on any computer to WD My Passport Ultra

Step 1. Run AOMEI Backupper from the installation directory. Go to the directory of AOMEI Backupper, double-click Backupper.exe and then you will see the main page of this software.

If you receive a prompt saying this is an expiration software, go to the root folder AOMEI Backupper, double-click Register.exe and then click Register for the advanced edition. 

If you don’t want to keep the registration information of this portable backup software, click Anti-registration after this task completes.

Step 2. Click Backup and File Backup in order. 

Step 3. Click Add File or Add Folder and select files you want to backup on the target computer.

Step 4. Click the second box and select WD My Passport Ultra as backup destination.

Step 5. Set advanced features in the following options to make this task automatically or flexibly. Then, click Start Backup to backup files with portable WD my passport backup software. 

>> Click Options to modify the file backup image, like split, compress, comment the backup image, etc.

>> Click Schedule Backup to set daily, weekly, or monthly backup frequency, or backup files based on specific events (Event trigger) or to USB flash drive automatically (USB plug in).

>> Click Backup Scheme to enable backup method (incremental or differential backup) or automatic backup cleanup. All of them help you alleviate or completely resolve backup disk full sooner or later due  to accumulated backups and limited space.

The way forward

With the help of the best portable WD My Passport Ultra backup software - AOMEI Backupper Technician or TechPlus, you can backup files on any computer easily and don’t need to install this software every time.

In simple words, whenever you want to backup files, you just need to connect the removable device containing the portable version of AOMEI Backupper, here is WD My Passport Ultra, and run it directly off the device.

Also, if you just want to do this on one computer, you can choose to create a bootable USB as an alternative. It allows you to boot any computer (both UEFI and BIOS) from recovery environment and you can perform backup, restore, sync or cloning without installing it again.