Why isn’t the External Hard Drive getting backed up by Backblaze

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My External Hard Drive (8 TB Seagate External Hard Drive mounted as disk letter F) isn't backed up. by Backblaze? See demo below. Why isn't it getting backed up?

I read https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217665398-Backing-up-External-Hard-Drives and it satisfies all the 5 requirements to be backed up:

  1. Natively read/write accessible by the operating system. (NTFS formatted, and I use Microsoft Windows)
  2. Directly connected to the computer via USB
  3. Not a Time Machine backup volume (macOS only)
  4. Not mounted as a 'removable storage device'
  5. In working condition

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I use Backblaze with Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate.

Best Answer

Turns out the "Backup now" button doesn't immediately back up any new drive selected for backup. It took my backblaze a few hours before starting to back up the external hard drive.

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