Seagate Dashboard User Guide
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..., CA 95014 U.S.A Seagate Dashboard User Guide © 2012 Seagate Technology LLC. Seagate reserves the right to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one of their respective owners. All rights reserved. Quantitative usage examples for various applications are for data storage. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other trademarks...
..., CA 95014 U.S.A Seagate Dashboard User Guide © 2012 Seagate Technology LLC. Seagate reserves the right to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one of their respective owners. All rights reserved. Quantitative usage examples for various applications are for data storage. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other trademarks...
Seagate Dashboard User Guide
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... Settings for Your Seagate Drive 6 Getting Started With Seagate Dashboard 6 About the Seagate Dashboard Icon 7 System Requirements for Seagate Dashboard 8 Windows Requirements 8 Mac Requirements 8 Cloud Storage Requirements 8 2. Saving Your Online Pictures with Seagate Dashboard 29 Seagate Dashboard User Guide 3 Managing Your Seagate Drives with Seagate Dashboard 21 How Picture Saving Works 21 Example: Downloading Pictures from Facebook 21 5. Protecting Your Data 9 Activating the Default Backup Plan 9 Creating a Customized Backup Plan 10 Restoring Files from Seagate...
... Settings for Your Seagate Drive 6 Getting Started With Seagate Dashboard 6 About the Seagate Dashboard Icon 7 System Requirements for Seagate Dashboard 8 Windows Requirements 8 Mac Requirements 8 Cloud Storage Requirements 8 2. Saving Your Online Pictures with Seagate Dashboard 29 Seagate Dashboard User Guide 3 Managing Your Seagate Drives with Seagate Dashboard 21 How Picture Saving Works 21 Example: Downloading Pictures from Facebook 21 5. Protecting Your Data 9 Activating the Default Backup Plan 9 Creating a Customized Backup Plan 10 Restoring Files from Seagate...
Seagate Dashboard User Guide
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... LED settings. Cloud Storage is a free subscription to use utility for more information. You can select from multiple historical versions of secure online storage. See "Using Cloud Storage" on your social media accounts to your Seagate drive. • Seagate drive management: Control settings for your data and sharing and saving media on how to the Seagate Cloud Storage Service Powered by Nero. If you need to restore a file from a backup drive, you can start backing up your system with your Backup Plus drive is a secure...
... LED settings. Cloud Storage is a free subscription to use utility for more information. You can select from multiple historical versions of secure online storage. See "Using Cloud Storage" on your social media accounts to your Seagate drive. • Seagate drive management: Control settings for your data and sharing and saving media on how to the Seagate Cloud Storage Service Powered by Nero. If you need to restore a file from a backup drive, you can start backing up your system with your Backup Plus drive is a secure...
Seagate Dashboard User Guide
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... settings and features on your drive. Getting Started With Seagate Dashboard After you install the Seagate Dashboard software, you back up and use the program's features. For Mac systems, Seagate recommends that you can control the power save feature on your system using Apple Time Machine. Controlling Settings for new pictures you 've posted online, so they don't get deleted accidentally. You can launch the Seagate Dashboard user interface to set up your Seagate drives. See "Sharing...
... settings and features on your drive. Getting Started With Seagate Dashboard After you install the Seagate Dashboard software, you back up and use the program's features. For Mac systems, Seagate recommends that you can control the power save feature on your system using Apple Time Machine. Controlling Settings for new pictures you 've posted online, so they don't get deleted accidentally. You can launch the Seagate Dashboard user interface to set up your Seagate drives. See "Sharing...
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... Seagate Dashboard icon to Launch on your computer desktop, indicates that you disable the Seagate Dashboard agent, any scheduled backups or automatic file downloads that the Seagate Dashboard agent is working properly. The Seagate Dashboard icon can be a mechanical issue with the Seagate Dashboard software, such as a backup failing to see if the drive is running when your data. See "Getting Technical Support for Your Seagate Drive" on the Start menu, select Seagate Dashboard > Seagate Dashboard. Note that if you 've configured in the Windows...
... Seagate Dashboard icon to Launch on your computer desktop, indicates that you disable the Seagate Dashboard agent, any scheduled backups or automatic file downloads that the Seagate Dashboard agent is working properly. The Seagate Dashboard icon can be a mechanical issue with the Seagate Dashboard software, such as a backup failing to see if the drive is running when your data. See "Getting Technical Support for Your Seagate Drive" on the Start menu, select Seagate Dashboard > Seagate Dashboard. Note that if you 've configured in the Windows...
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... the Backup Plus family of drives. Seagate Dashboard User Guide 8 The Cloud Storage service is not compatible with Mac computers, even when connected to a Dashboard-enhanced Seagate drive. Make sure your system meets the requirements listed in this section. Introducing Seagate Dashboard System Requirements for Seagate Dashboard System Requirements for Windows Vista or Windows 7) • Internet Explorer® 6 or later, Firefox® 2.x or later, or Chrome 4.x or later Web browser Mac Requirements To use Seagate Dashboard on a Mac computer, you need the...
... the Backup Plus family of drives. Seagate Dashboard User Guide 8 The Cloud Storage service is not compatible with Mac computers, even when connected to a Dashboard-enhanced Seagate drive. Make sure your system meets the requirements listed in this section. Introducing Seagate Dashboard System Requirements for Seagate Dashboard System Requirements for Windows Vista or Windows 7) • Internet Explorer® 6 or later, Firefox® 2.x or later, or Chrome 4.x or later Web browser Mac Requirements To use Seagate Dashboard on a Mac computer, you need the...
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... Storage. For Mac computers, Seagate recommends that you can select from multiple historical versions of the file. (Only a single version of Seagate Dashboard. Figure 3: Seagate Dashboard Protect Screen Seagate Dashboard User Guide 9 On the Seagate Dashboard Home screen, click Protect. 2. You can start backing up your data. When you activate the default backup plan, Seagate Dashboard automatically backs up your system with a single click, or you back up your system using Apple Time Machine...
... Storage. For Mac computers, Seagate recommends that you can select from multiple historical versions of the file. (Only a single version of Seagate Dashboard. Figure 3: Seagate Dashboard Protect Screen Seagate Dashboard User Guide 9 On the Seagate Dashboard Home screen, click Protect. 2. You can start backing up your data. When you activate the default backup plan, Seagate Dashboard automatically backs up your system with a single click, or you back up your system using Apple Time Machine...
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Seagate Dashboard User Guide 10 On the Protect screen, click the New Backup Plan button to your computer, your Seagate drive. Protecting Your Data Creating a Customized Backup Plan Seagate Dashboard starts backing up every day at 10:00pm. 1. See "Setting Up Your Seagate Drives for Seagate Dashboard" on page 33 for information on detachable USB drives Creating a Customized Backup Plan If you can specify which files or directories get backed up, when the backup plan runs, and...
Seagate Dashboard User Guide 10 On the Protect screen, click the New Backup Plan button to your computer, your Seagate drive. Protecting Your Data Creating a Customized Backup Plan Seagate Dashboard starts backing up every day at 10:00pm. 1. See "Setting Up Your Seagate Drives for Seagate Dashboard" on page 33 for information on detachable USB drives Creating a Customized Backup Plan If you can specify which files or directories get backed up, when the backup plan runs, and...
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... Figure 4. Click the > and < buttons to step through the backup configuration process by clicking the < and > buttons. By default, the backup plan is selected. To back up a specific directory or group of Files to Back Up Seagate Dashboard User Guide 11 Figure 5: Selecting Types of files, remove the checkmark next to All Files, then click the Select Files button. Protecting Your Data Creating a Customized Backup Plan From here, you can...
... Figure 4. Click the > and < buttons to step through the backup configuration process by clicking the < and > buttons. By default, the backup plan is selected. To back up a specific directory or group of Files to Back Up Seagate Dashboard User Guide 11 Figure 5: Selecting Types of files, remove the checkmark next to All Files, then click the Select Files button. Protecting Your Data Creating a Customized Backup Plan From here, you can...
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... Seagate Dashboard to the Backup Plus drive, so you the option to delete the backup plan. Restoring Files from the backup drive, or leave them in place. Seagate Dashboard User Guide 14 After you create a backup plan, Seagate Dashboard shows its status on the Protect screen, Figure 9: Seagate Dashboard Protect Status Screen On this screen, you can click the Pause button to temporarily stop the backup plan, the Pencil button to edit the backup plan settings, or the X button to delete the files...
... Seagate Dashboard to the Backup Plus drive, so you the option to delete the backup plan. Restoring Files from the backup drive, or leave them in place. Seagate Dashboard User Guide 14 After you create a backup plan, Seagate Dashboard shows its status on the Protect screen, Figure 9: Seagate Dashboard Protect Status Screen On this screen, you can click the Pause button to temporarily stop the backup plan, the Pencil button to edit the backup plan settings, or the X button to delete the files...
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... Settings screen in Facebook. Once you can upload. Seagate Dashboard shows only the picture and video files (.jpg, gif, avi, mov, and so Seagate Dashboard User Guide 17 Sharing Your Pictures and Videos Seagate Dashboard provides an easy way to work properly. Also the first time you use Seagate Dashboard to access Facebook, you can do this permission is an example of coins into a new album in Facebook. 5. On the Seagate Dashboard Home...
... Settings screen in Facebook. Once you can upload. Seagate Dashboard shows only the picture and video files (.jpg, gif, avi, mov, and so Seagate Dashboard User Guide 17 Sharing Your Pictures and Videos Seagate Dashboard provides an easy way to work properly. Also the first time you use Seagate Dashboard to access Facebook, you can do this permission is an example of coins into a new album in Facebook. 5. On the Seagate Dashboard Home...
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... similar for the Share and Save functions to work properly. Once you do this permission to the app. Saving Your Online Pictures with Seagate Dashboard The Save feature of how to set up Seagate Dashboard to download pictures posted on your behalf. Saving Your Online Pictures with Seagate Dashboard How Picture Saving Works 4. The first time you access Facebook from a Flickr account. 1. On the Seagate Dashboard Home screen, click...
... similar for the Share and Save functions to work properly. Once you do this permission to the app. Saving Your Online Pictures with Seagate Dashboard The Save feature of how to set up Seagate Dashboard to download pictures posted on your behalf. Saving Your Online Pictures with Seagate Dashboard How Picture Saving Works 4. The first time you access Facebook from a Flickr account. 1. On the Seagate Dashboard Home screen, click...
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... Seagate Cloud Storage Service Powered by Nero is only available in the Windows version of Seagate Dashboard. Setting up a Cloud Storage Account To start backing up data online. Using Cloud Storage This chapter explains how to set up a backup plan with 4 gigabytes of available storage, and extend your account using a Web browser. See "Protecting Your Data" on how to your data backups. Using Cloud Storage About Cloud Storage 5. Seagate Dashboard User Guide 23 When setting up and manage your Cloud Storage...
... Seagate Cloud Storage Service Powered by Nero is only available in the Windows version of Seagate Dashboard. Setting up a Cloud Storage Account To start backing up data online. Using Cloud Storage This chapter explains how to set up a backup plan with 4 gigabytes of available storage, and extend your account using a Web browser. See "Protecting Your Data" on how to your data backups. Using Cloud Storage About Cloud Storage 5. Seagate Dashboard User Guide 23 When setting up and manage your Cloud Storage...
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... following options: • Information: Shows your Cloud Storage account information. • Change passwords: Lets you change the password for your Cloud Storage account. • Upgrade: Shows options for increasing the amount of the Seagate Dashboard screen, then click the Open Web Portal link on the Info tab. Using the Cloud Storage Web Portal, you can view and download files you can also access the files you've saved in...
... following options: • Information: Shows your Cloud Storage account information. • Change passwords: Lets you change the password for your Cloud Storage account. • Upgrade: Shows options for increasing the amount of the Seagate Dashboard screen, then click the Open Web Portal link on the Info tab. Using the Cloud Storage Web Portal, you can view and download files you can also access the files you've saved in...
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... drive model, serial number, firmware version, drive letter, file system type, and amount of them. A pie chart shows the amount of the Seagate Dashboard window, there is . Managing Your Seagate Drives with Seagate Dashboard Seagate Dashboard makes it easy to adjust settings and features on your Seagate drives. Hover over the drive icon, Seagate Dashboard displays a bar below the icon indicating how full the drive is an icon for each of free space on the drive. Using Seagate Dashboard, you place your drive, turn the LEDs...
... drive model, serial number, firmware version, drive letter, file system type, and amount of them. A pie chart shows the amount of the Seagate Dashboard window, there is . Managing Your Seagate Drives with Seagate Dashboard Seagate Dashboard makes it easy to adjust settings and features on your Seagate drives. Hover over the drive icon, Seagate Dashboard displays a bar below the icon indicating how full the drive is an icon for each of free space on the drive. Using Seagate Dashboard, you place your drive, turn the LEDs...
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... find troubleshooting information, updated software, product specifications, reviews, and the latest documentation for your data. Seagate Dashboard will run the test and then report whether the drive passed or failed. Note that the drive is properly connected to the drive's page on your drive is disabled by default on . The power save feature is not working properly. The power save feature places the Seagate drive in a standby mode after a period of time. Managing Your Seagate Drives with Seagate Dashboard Getting Technical Support...
... find troubleshooting information, updated software, product specifications, reviews, and the latest documentation for your data. Seagate Dashboard will run the test and then report whether the drive passed or failed. Note that the drive is properly connected to the drive's page on your drive is disabled by default on . The power save feature is not working properly. The power save feature places the Seagate drive in a standby mode after a period of time. Managing Your Seagate Drives with Seagate Dashboard Getting Technical Support...
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...; Hidden: If checked, hides the drive in the Seagate Dashboard user interface. Managing the Seagate Dashboard Software user interface. Configuring Seagate Dashboard Features Click the Features tab to specific social media Seagate Dashboard User Guide 34 Configuring Seagate Dashboard Features Figure 27: Seagate Dashboard Drives Tab On the Drives tab, you can click the following for each drive: • Register: Opens the Product Registration page for the drive. • Default Backup: If selected, sets the drive as the default destination for backup plans.
...; Hidden: If checked, hides the drive in the Seagate Dashboard user interface. Managing the Seagate Dashboard Software user interface. Configuring Seagate Dashboard Features Click the Features tab to specific social media Seagate Dashboard User Guide 34 Configuring Seagate Dashboard Features Figure 27: Seagate Dashboard Drives Tab On the Drives tab, you can click the following for each drive: • Register: Opens the Product Registration page for the drive. • Default Backup: If selected, sets the drive as the default destination for backup plans.
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... upgrading available storage 26 Web access 26 continuous backup 13 D daily back up 13 data protection 5, 9-16 disabling 35 Seagate Dashboard User Guide default backup drive 34 diagnostic test 31 drive settings 6, 29-32 F Facebook 17, 21 Flickr 17, 21 H Hidden box 34 I icon colors 7 installing software updates 37 L language setting 35 launching the program 6 LEDs 31 M Mac 8 Microsoft Windows 6, 8 monthly back up 13 P picture albums 18 power save feature 31 product features 5 product registration 34 R restoring data...
... upgrading available storage 26 Web access 26 continuous backup 13 D daily back up 13 data protection 5, 9-16 disabling 35 Seagate Dashboard User Guide default backup drive 34 diagnostic test 31 drive settings 6, 29-32 F Facebook 17, 21 Flickr 17, 21 H Hidden box 34 I icon colors 7 installing software updates 37 L language setting 35 launching the program 6 LEDs 31 M Mac 8 Microsoft Windows 6, 8 monthly back up 13 P picture albums 18 power save feature 31 product features 5 product registration 34 R restoring data...
Backup Plus Desktop Drive Data Sheet
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... your computer. Managing your computer and the cloud The Seagate® Backup Plus desktop drive simplifies backup for consumers who want to set up from the device, another copy can upgrade from the included USB 3.0 interface to post them and even add comments. Install the pre-loaded NTFS driver for Mac, and use their smartphones to capture priceless moments. DESKTOP DRIVE DISQUE EXTERNE Data Sheet Seagate Backup Plus, easy backup for your digital life on a social...
... your computer. Managing your computer and the cloud The Seagate® Backup Plus desktop drive simplifies backup for consumers who want to set up from the device, another copy can upgrade from the included USB 3.0 interface to post them and even add comments. Install the pre-loaded NTFS driver for Mac, and use their smartphones to capture priceless moments. DESKTOP DRIVE DISQUE EXTERNE Data Sheet Seagate Backup Plus, easy backup for your digital life on a social...
Backup Plus Desktop Drive Data Sheet
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... 4 Master Cartons per Pallet 60 Pallet Layers 5 System Requirements Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, Windows XP SP3 (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system or Mac OS X 10.6 or higher1 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 port (required for USB 3.0 transfer speeds or backwards compatible with USB 2.0 ports at USB 2.0 transfer speeds)2 Inside the Box Seagate Backup Plus drive 4-foot USB 3.0 cable Seagate Dashboard pre-loaded on drive Power adapter NTFS driver for Mac pre-loaded on user's hardware configuration and operating system. 3 One gigabyte, or GB, equals one...
... 4 Master Cartons per Pallet 60 Pallet Layers 5 System Requirements Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, Windows XP SP3 (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system or Mac OS X 10.6 or higher1 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 port (required for USB 3.0 transfer speeds or backwards compatible with USB 2.0 ports at USB 2.0 transfer speeds)2 Inside the Box Seagate Backup Plus drive 4-foot USB 3.0 cable Seagate Dashboard pre-loaded on drive Power adapter NTFS driver for Mac pre-loaded on user's hardware configuration and operating system. 3 One gigabyte, or GB, equals one...