Seagate Backup Plus Desktop User manual

Backup Plus Portable Drive™ Reviewer’s Guide

Table of Contents
Backup Plus Portable Drive™ Reviewer’s Guide............................................................................................1!
Table of Contents ..........................................................................................................................................3!
Overview .......................................................................................................................................................4!
In the box ..................................................................................................................................................4!
System Requirements ...............................................................................................................................4!
Specifications............................................................................................................................................4!
Purpose of this guide.....................................................................................................................................5!
Backup Plus—Installation and Use ................................................................................................................6!
Quick Start: Setting Up Your Backup Plus Portable Drive ..........................................................................6!
Assembly ...............................................................................................................................................6!
Mac Software Setup...............................................................................................................................6!
Seagate Dashboard—Installation and Use.....................................................................................................7!
Installation: ................................................................................................................................................7!
Protect ....................................................................................................................................................10!
Share ......................................................................................................................................................12!
Save........................................................................................................................................................13!
Working With Your Media—Using the Backup Plus Portable Drive Anywhere: .............................................14!
Wrapping Up ...............................................................................................................................................15!
Tutorial Videos ........................................................................................................................................15!
Commonly Asked Questions ...................................................................................................................15!
Seagate Dashboard Updates ..................................................................................................................15!
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Overview
In the box
•Backup Plus Portable Drive ™ Portable Drive
•18” USB 3.0 cable
•USB 3.0 Adapter
•Seagate Dashboard Installer pre-loaded on drive
•NTFS driver for Mac pre-loaded on drive
•Quick Start Guide
•2 Year Limited Warranty
System Requirements
•PC or Mac® computer running Windows® 7, Vista®, XP SP3 or Mac OS® X 10.6 operating system
or higher for loading media on to Backup Plus drive via USB
Specifications
•Length (in/mm): 4.86/123.4
•Width (in/mm): 3.19/81.1
•Depth (in/mm): 0.57/14.5
•Weight (in/mm): 0.440/0.224

Purpose of this guide
The Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive will allow you to quickly back up your valuable data and
irreplaceable memories, both locally and to the cloud. One of the key features of this drive is its ability to save
content from Facebook and other social media sites directly to the drive. We invite you to test the limits of
your imagination. The Backup Plus works with the following social media sites:
Facebook
Flick
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YouTube

Backup Plus—Installation and Use
Quick Start: Setting Up Your Backup Plus Portable Drive
IMPORTANT: Don’t format the drive before you use it!
The Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive is a cross-platform device—it is both Mac and PC compatible.
Upon opening the box, please verify that you have the following items in your possession before you begin:
•Backup Plus Portable Drive
•Detachable USB 3.0 Cable
Assembly
1. Remove all items from the packaging.
2. Connect the Detachable USB 3.0 Cable to the Backup Plus Portable Drive.
3. You can now connect your Backup Plus Portable Drive to your Windows PC or Mac via the USB 3.0
Cable.
Mac users, please note: When you connect your Backup Plus Portable Drive to your Mac, a prompt
will appear on the screen asking you “Do you want to use ‘Backup Plus Portable Drive’ to back up
with Time Machine?”
Because you will be using the Backup Plus Portable Drive primarily to backup and upload media to
various social media sites, we recommend that you choose “Decide Later” or “Don’t Use.”
4. Windows PC users can now skip ahead to page 7. Mac users should continue reading so that we
can guide you through a brief software install so that you can get the most out of your Backup Plus
Portable Drive.
Mac Software Setup
1. When you connect your Backup Plus Portable Drive, you will see a file in the “Seagate Backup Plus
Drive” folder titled “Mac Installer.dmg” Double-click on that file and go through the simple product
registration process.
2. Once that is complete, you will see a prompt titled “Install Seagate Backup Plus”. Keep selecting
“Continue” and later, “Agree” to proceed. You will then see a screen titled “Standard Install on…”
and the name of your local hard drive. Select “Install” to proceed. Please note that if your Mac is
password protected, you will need to enter your password to authorize the installation of the
Seagate software.
3. After the software has been successfully installed, select “Restart” to complete the installation.

Seagate Dashboard—Installation and Use
The Seagate Dashboard works seamlessly with your Backup Plus Portable Drive. It is comprised of three
main components: Protect (backup your computer), Save (download content from your social media sites),
and Share (upload content to your social media sites). The benefit of this is that in just 3 clicks, you can
perform all three tasks.
When new items are added to your computer and/or your social media sites, the Seagate Dashboard can
scan them for new items and categorize them accordingly. This eliminates the need to constantly instruct the
software where the new information goes. And as an added bonus; Seagate will provide up to 4GB of Cloud
Storage for free for an entire year.
(As was briefly mentioned, the Seagate Dashboard is Mac compatible but for the purposes of this reviewer’s
guide, we will focus on the Windows environment.)
Ok, let’s walk through the installation and use of the Seagate Dashboard.
Installation:
1. On your Windows desktop (or the Windows Start Menu), double click My Computer.
2. Locate and double click the Seagate Backup Plus Drive
3. Double click the Seagate Dashboard Installer.exe (you may be prompted to install Microsoft VC
Redist 2010 SP1 (x86) component) & Reboot Validator, install the files)
a. Accept any update that is available to get the latest version of the Seagate Dashboard
rather than doing a manual update later.

4. Click Finish. After a few moments the Seagate Dashboard will launch.
Once the Seagate Dashboard is installed and opened you will now have access to the Protect, Share and
Save features.

Protect
This feature will allow you to back up some or all of your non-system files. This includes your documents,
photos, and videos:
After clicking Protect, you will be presented with two options:
•Protect Now: This will back up all of your data files to your Seagate Backup Plus drive
•New Backup Plan: This allows for the scheduling of a custom back up