How To Use Backup Plus Mac Seagate User Manual Free
How To Use Backup Plus Mac Seagate User Manual Download
How To Use Backup Plus Mac Seagate User Manual Pdf
How To Use Backup Plus Mac Seagate User Manual Online

View the manual for the Seagate Backup Plus here, for free. This manual comes under the category External Hard Drives and has been rated by 2 people with an average of a 7.9. This manual is available in the following languages: English, Chinese. The Seagate Backup Plus Hub is rated for use with OS X 10.7 or higher. Seagate Backup Plus Hub – Set-up. Even without the Quick Start Guide or User Manual, someone with little to no experience can probably figure out how to get the drive connected to your Mac since it only requires connection of power and the USB cable. Step by step how to set up your new Seagate Backup Plus Hub on a Mac. Don't forget to Subscribe for more content! Links below: http://oprahbrylie.tumblr.com.

Quick navigation:

How do I transfer files to my seagate external hard drive?

“I have some precious pictures, files, videos, etc on my computer that truly need to be backed up !!!! Thus, I bought Seagate Backup Plus. It’s said this is a backup drive. But It does not show as a backup drive when I plug it into my Windows 10. What's wrong? How do I backup files on Seagate external hard drive?”

Don't worry about it! This is what I will share with you in the following. As far as I know, this is probably a connection issue or the disk driver is outdated. And there are 3 different Seagate external drive backup software for you to backup files on Seagate external hard drive, namely Seagate Dashboard, Backup and Restore, and AOMEI Backupper.

How To Use Backup Plus Mac Seagate User Manual Free

Honestly, the third one is smarter, which has more advanced features and allows you to backup only changed files or folders. Also, it has an intutive interface, so all users can understand this software easily and quickly. Therefore, if you want a simple & effective way, it will be a great choice.

Why backup files to Seagate external hard drive?

How to use backup plus mac seagate user manual pdf

Talking about the reason, there are 2 main reasons to backup files on Seagate external hard drive. Let's see them specifically.

Ensure the security of your precious data. Most computers users save data on their laptop or desktop, but there is a great risk of data loss in the event of failure, such as, system crash, disk failure, virus attack, ransomware etc. To minimize the risk, you can backup files to external hard drive, like Seagate Backup Plus.
External hard drive is very portable to take. Aside by the security issue, you may want to save the common used files to a portable storage device and take it everywhere, so you can view files on external hard drive anytime. Seagate external hard drive is one of the portable storage devices.

Seagate Dashboard: use Seagate external hard drive to backup files

This is the first method to backup files on Seagate external hard drive. You will use Seagate Dashboard, a seagate external drive backup software, which comes along with Seagate Backup Plus or Seagate Center. Without further ado, let's get started to reveal Seagate backup Plus how to use.

Step 1. Connect Seagate Backup Plus to your computer and make sure it can be detected. Then, access Seagate external hard drive in Windows Explorer and double-click the Seagate Dashboard Installer.exe to install this software

Step 2. Launch Seagate Dashboard and then select PC Backup in the home page.

Step 3. Then, click Protect Now and Back up Now to backup all non-system files.

Notes:
◑ About how do I know when Seagate backup is complete, you can see the green backup progress bar and percentage. And when the task is complete, these indicators will disappear.
◑ Seagate Dashboard can also be a Seagate automatic backup software, which allows you to backup all personal folders (non-system files) or specific folders with New Backup Plan option. It supports multiple Seagate automatic backup options, including snapshot, weekly, monthly, daily, hourly, and continuously.

Backup and Restore: backup files using Seagate external hard drive

As said before, Seagate Backup Plus is one of the backup drives. It’s is compatible with Windows and Mac. And it has a great capacity, even up to 8TB. Aside by that, it supports a faster speed. Then, let's have a closer look at how to use Seagate external hard drive in Windows 7/8/10 to backup files.

Step 1. Install Seagate Backup Plus drive on your computer via an adapter. Then, click Use this drive for backup under AutoPlay window, and wait for Windows Backup to start.

Step 2. Pitch on Let Windows choose or Let me Choose, then click Next.

Note: If you just want to backup files saved in libraries, on the desktop, in default Windows folders, you can choose Let Windows choose. If you want to backup specific files or folders, you can choose Let me choose.

Step 3. The default schedule setting is set to 7am every week. If you want to change it, click Change schedule. Then, review your backup settings and click Save settings and run Backup to finish the last step. Wait until you see a prompt like ”Windows Backup has completed successfully”.

Note: Backup and Restore utility (Windows 7) is very useful. It can help you backup files and backup system as long as you have a common external hard drive. However, it may fail to encrypt and compress backup images. Also, it cannot support differential backup.

AOMEI Backupper: backup files on Seagate external hard drive

Reading here, you may already know how to backup files using Seagate Backup Plus. Frankly speaking, it’s not a perfect way to backup files.

I strongly recommend you using Seagate automatic backup software AOMEI Backupper Professional. With it, you can backup files to Seagate external hard drive automatically, even with only changed files. It supports daily backup, weekly backup, monthly backup, incremental/differential backup, etc. Also, you can choose to compress backup files if it's too large In addition, you can encrypt backup files if there are any sensitive data.

How To Use Backup Plus Mac Seagate User Manual Download

Then, let's take Seagate Backup Plus as an example and have a closer look at how to backup files to Seagate external hard drive. Before starting any operation, please connect Seagate Backup Plus drive to your computer and download the free trial file backup software AOMEI Backupper Professional.

Download Free Trial

Win 10/8.1/8/7/XP

Secure Download

Step 1. Launch AOMEI Backupper Professional. Then, click Backup and File Backup to summon the next window

Step 2. Click Add File or Add Folder to select files from the local computer.

Step 3. Select Seagate Backup Plus drive as the destination path.

Step 4 (Important). Click Schedule, then click daily under the General tab and select differential backup under the Advanced tab. Then, click Start Backup if there are no problems.

Notes:
◑ Differential backup is much safer than incremental backup, because it will contain all the files in the original backup and the newly added or modified. Even if one of the image file is damaged, you still can restore files from backup.
◑ This version of software is only suitable for Windows 7/8/10/XP/Vista. If you are using server computer, you could consider upgrading to AOMEI Backupper Server.