SEAGATE Backup Plus Portable Hard Drive

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Back Up Now! (Windows)

Connect your Seagate storage device to your computer and you’re ready to back up your important files and folders. The fastest way to back up is to select items on your computer and copy them to your drive by dragging and dropping. If you want to make sure your data is continuously backed up, you can easily  create an automated backup plan.

1. Open a File Explorer window and click on your drive.
   
   Windows 7 — Use Windows Explorer to drag and drop items.
2. Open another File Explorer window and select folders or files on your computer to back up.
   
3. Drag items to your drive.
   

Want a faster way? Just copy and paste

1. Open a File Explorer window and select folders or files on your computer to back up.
   
   Windows 7 — Use Windows Explorer to select items.
2. Click Copy on the Home menu.
   
   Other ways to copy to the clipboard
   • Hold down the Ctrl key and press C.
   • Right-click on files and select Copy from the context menu.
3. Click on your drive.
   
4. Click Paste on the Home menu.
   
   Other ways to paste files copied to the clipboard
   • Hold down the Ctrl key and press V.
     Right-click on files and select Paste from the context menu.

Set up a Toolkit backup plan 

Toolkit has an easy-to-use backup feature for your PC! For details, see the Toolkit User Manual.

Windows na4ve backup solutions 

Windows also has backup solutions. For details, choose your version of Windows:

• Windows 10
• Windows 11

Back Up Now! (Mac)

Format your drive for macOS 

The external storage device you purchased is formatted NTFS, the native file format for Windows PCs. Your Mac can read the NTFS format but it can’t write to the drive or delete files from it. You can format the storage device to give your Mac full read/write access.

Formatting erases everything on the storage device. Seagate and its subsidiary, LaCie, are not responsible for any data lost due to formatting, partitioning, or using a storage device.

1. Open the Finder and go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility.
2. In the sidebar to the left, select your storage device.
   
   macOS starting version 10.13 — Make sure to select the storage device and not just the volume. If you don’t see two entries listed in the sidebar, change the view in disk utility to show both the drive and the volume. The view button is in the upper left side of the Disk Utility window. Change the view to Show All Devices. This feature was introduced in macOS 10.13 and is not available in 10.11 or 10.12.
   
3. Select Erase. A dialog box opens.
   
4. Enter a name for the drive. This will be the name displayed when the drive mounts.
5. For Format, select OS X Extended (Journaled).
6. For Scheme, select GUID Partition Map.
7. Click Erase.
8. Disk Utility formats the drive. When it’s finished, click Done.

Start backing up

Connect your Seagate storage device to your computer and you’re ready to back up your important files and folders. The fastest way to back up is to select items on your computer and copy them to your drive by dragging and dropping. If you want to make sure your data is continuously backed up, you can easily create an automated backup plan.

1. Open a Finder window and click on your drive
   
2. Open another Finder window and select folders or files on your computer to back up
   
3. Drag items to your drive
   

Want a faster way? Just copy and paste

1. Open a Finder window and select folders or files on your computer to back up
   
2. Choose Copy from the Edit menu
   
   Another way to copy to the clipboard
   Hold down the Command key () and press C.
3. Click on your drive
   
4. Choose Paste Item (s) from the Edit menu
   
   Another way to paste files copied to the clipboard
   Hold down the Command key () and press V.

Set up a Time Machine plan 

Time Machine is an automated backup feature built into your Mac. For details, see this Apple support article.

Documents / Resources

	SEAGATE Backup Plus Portable Hard Drive [pdf] User Manual Backup Plus Portable Hard Drive, Backup, Plus Portable Hard Drive, Portable Hard Drive, Hard Drive, Drive
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References

• User Manual