Introducing Seagate Dashboard; Seagate Dashboard Features; Protecting Your Data (Windows Only) - Seagate Backup Plus Desktop User Manual

Introducing Seagate Dashboard

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 protection (Windows only): Back up your data continuously or on a schedule,
either to a Dashboard-enhanced Seagate drive or to an online Cloud Storage account.
• Picture and video sharing: Use Seagate Dashboard to upload your pictures and videos
to popular social networking services such as Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube.
• Picture saving: Set up Seagate Dashboard to download and save pictures posted on
your social media accounts to your Seagate drive.
• Seagate drive management: Control settings for your Seagate drive, including the
power-save feature and LED settings.

Protecting Your Data (Windows Only)

With Seagate Dashboard's Protect 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.
You can specify which files or directories get backed up and where the backed-up files are
saved, either to a Dashboard-enhanced Seagate drive, or to the online Seagate Cloud
Storage Service Powered by Nero. If you need to restore a file from a backup drive, you can
select from multiple historical versions of the file.
See "Protecting Your Data" on page 9 for information on how to use the Protect feature.
Seagate Cloud Storage Service Powered by Nero
Included with your Backup Plus drive is a free subscription to the Seagate Cloud Storage
Service Powered by Nero. Cloud Storage is a secure, reliable place to store your backed-up
data online. The free subscription includes one year of service and four gigabytes of secure
online storage. You can optionally upgrade your online storage capacity to as much as 100
gigabytes.
See "Using Cloud Storage" on page 23 for more information.
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