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Seagate Dashboard User Guide
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Seagate Dashboard User Guide © 2013 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Seagate, Seagate Technology, the Wave logo, and FreeAgent are trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC, or one of its affiliates. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. When referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one thousand billion bytes when referring to hard drive
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Contents 1. Introducing Seagate Dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Seagate Dashboard Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Protecting Your Data (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Sharing Your Pictures and Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Downloading and Saving Your Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Controlling Settings
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Viewing Information About Your Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Adjusting Drive Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Getting Technical Support for Your Seagate Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 7. Managing the Seagate Dashboard Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Configuring Seagate Dashboard Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Setting Up Your Seagate Drives
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Introducing Seagate Dashboard Seagate Dashboard Features 1. Introducing Seagate Dashboard ® Seagate Dashboard is a powerful, yet easy-to-use utility for backing up your data and sharing and saving media on your social media networks. This chapter describes the features of Seagate Dashboard, how to get started using the ® ® program, and the system requirements for the Windows and Mac versions of the program. Seagate Dashboard Features Seagate Dashboard includes the following features: • Data p
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Introducing Seagate Dashboard Getting Started With Seagate Dashboard See “Using Cloud Storage” on page 23 for more information. Note: The Protect feature and Cloud Storage service are only available on the Windows version of Seagate Dashboard. For Mac systems, Seagate recommends that you back up your system using Apple Time Machine. Sharing Your Pictures and Videos Seagate Dashboard provides a convenient way to upload your pictures and videos to popular social networking services such as Face
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Introducing Seagate Dashboard Getting Started With Seagate Dashboard • Double-click the Seagate Dashboard icon on your desktop. Figure 1: Seagate Dashboard Desktop Icon • Right-click the Seagate Dashboard icon in the system tray, and select Open Seagate Dashboard from the menu. Seagate Dashboard Icon Figure 2: Seagate Dashboard Icon in the Windows System Tray • From the list of programs on the Start menu, select Seagate Dashboard > Seagate Dashboard. On Mac systems, launch Seagate Dashbo
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Introducing Seagate Dashboard System Requirements for Seagate Dashboard System Requirements for Seagate Dashboard Seagate Dashboard runs on Windows and Mac computers. Make sure your system meets the requirements listed in this section. Note: The Protect, Share, and Save features of Seagate Dashboard only work with Dashboard- enhanced Seagate drives. These features do not work on non-Dashboard-enhanced Seagate drives, or drives from other vendors. Windows Requirements To use Seagate Dashboard o
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Protecting Your Data Activating the Default Backup Plan 2. Protecting Your Data ® Seagate Dashboard includes a robust and flexible data backup feature. You can start backing up your system with a single click, or you can customize the feature to back up your data according to a set schedule and save it to a Dashboard-enhanced Seagate backup drive or to Cloud Storage. If you need to restore a file from a backup drive, you can select from multiple historical versions of the file. (Only a singl
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Protecting Your Data Creating a Customized Backup Plan Seagate Dashboard starts backing up your data to your Seagate drive. If you have more than one Seagate drive connected to your computer, your data is backed up to the drive designated as the default backup drive. See “Setting Up Your Seagate Drives for Seagate Dashboard” on page 34 for information on how to set the default backup drive. Note that Seagate Dashboard does not back up certain files, including: • The contents of the Windows di
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Protecting Your Data Creating a Customized Backup Plan From here, you specify the files, destination, and frequency for the backup plan, as shown in Figure 4. You can configure each backup setting individually, or you can step through the backup configuration process by clicking the < and > buttons. Click here to Click the > and < activate the buttons to step through backup plan the backup configuration process Click here to select Click here to set the Click here to set files to back up
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Protecting Your Data Creating a Customized Backup Plan 4. Navigate to the directory or files you want to back up and place a checkmark next to each one. When you are done, click the > button to move to the next backup configuration screen. Figure 6: Selecting Specific Files to Back Up 5. Place a checkmark next to the drive(s) where you want the files to be backed up. If you have created a Cloud Storage account, it appears on this screen as a destination option. See “Using Cloud Storage” o
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Protecting Your Data Creating a Customized Backup Plan 6. Indicate how often the files should be backed up. Figure 8: Selecting How Often to Execute a Backup Plan You can select from the following options: • Snapshot: Executes the backup plan only once. • Monthly: Executes the backup plan a specific day of each month, at a specific time. • Weekly: Executes the backup plan a specific day of each week, at a specific time. • Daily: Executes the backup plan at a specific time each day. • Continuo
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Protecting Your Data Restoring Files from Backup 8. 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 backup plan. If you choose to delete a backup plan, Seagate Dashboard gives you the option to delete the files from the backup drive, or
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Protecting Your Data Restoring Files from Backup 3. Seagate Dashboard displays a list of the currently active Backup plans. Click Find Backups to display the of the backups saved on your drive, then select the backup plan that saved the file you want to restore. Figure 10: Selecting a Backup Plan for Restoring a File 4. Click the > button to list the backups saved by the selected backup plan. Figure 11: Selecting a Previous Backup 5. Select a backup that contains the file you want to res
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Protecting Your Data Restoring Files from Backup 6. Click the > button, and select the location on your system where you want to restore the file. By default, Seagate Dashboard will save the restored files in their original location on your system. Figure 12: Selecting the Destination for the Restored File 7. Click the green checkmark to restore the file from the backup to the selected location. Seagate Dashboard User Guide 16
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Sharing Your Pictures and Videos How Picture and Video Sharing Works 3. Sharing Your Pictures and Videos ® Seagate Dashboard provides an easy way to upload your pictures and videos from your local system to popular social networking services such as Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube. How Picture and Video Sharing Works On the Seagate Dashboard Share screen, you choose the social networking service where want to upload the pictures and videos, log in, select the files to upload, then enter details
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Sharing Your Pictures and Videos Example: Uploading Pictures to Facebook on) in each folder. You can filter the display by entering text in the Search field. For example, entering jpg in the Search field shows only those files in the folder with jpg in the file name. Place a checkmark next to the files and folders you want to upload Enter text here to show only files with this text in the name Figure 13: Seagate Dashboard File Selection Screen 6. Place a checkmark next to the files and fol
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Sharing Your Pictures and Videos Example: Uploading Pictures to Facebook Note: Videos uploaded to Facebook are always placed in the My Videos folder, regardless of the destination album you specify in the Album selection screen. 8. When you are finished, click the green checkmark to start the upload. Once the upload is finished, you can log into your Facebook page and view the pictures in the album. Figure 15: Picture Album Uploaded to Facebook Using Seagate Dashboard Seagate Dashboard User
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Sharing Your Pictures and Videos Example: Uploading Pictures to Facebook Seagate Dashboard User Guide 20
