Seagate FreeAgent User Manual
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- Page 1 Seagate Manager User Guide For Use With Your FreeAgent Drive Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent Drive...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Creating a Custom Backup with Online Storage ..15 Drive Rotation with FreeAgent ........16 Managing Backup Settings ............17 Editing Backup Settings for FreeAgent ...... 17 Editing Backup Settings for Online Storage ..... 18 Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent Drive... - Page 3 ..........30 Managing Security ....................31 Creating an Encryption Folder ........31 Managing an Encryption Folder ........33 Seagate and Maxtor Seagate Secure Storage Devices .. 37 Index ............................42 Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent Drive...
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Page 4: Getting Started
Using the Seagate Status Icon After you install your drive, the Seagate Status icon appears in the taskbar notification area on your computer desktop. You can use this icon to check the status of your FreeAgent drive and to access the drive features. -
Page 5: Restoring The Seagate Status Icon
Step 3: Select the feature you want to access or select Exit to close the menu. Restoring the Seagate Status Icon If you exit from the Seagate Status menu, the Seagate icon disappears from the taskbar notification area. To restore the Seagate Status icon to the taskbar notification area, go to Start >Programs >... -
Page 6: Managing Your Drives
Using the My Drives Window Managing Your Drives The My Drives window provides a central point from which to manage your Seagate FreeAgent device. This is the default window that appears when you open Seagate Manager. You can also get to the My Drives window by clicking the My Drives button in the Command Panel from any other window within the software. -
Page 7: Settings
When you use external storage, the middle of the My Drives window displays the connected FreeAgent drive. If there is more than one drive connected, there will be a list of drives to choose from. The drive that is currently selected is highlighted in light blue (as shown in Figure To select a different drive, click the drive icon or partition name. -
Page 8: Testing Your Drive
Step 6: Click OK to return to the My Drives window. Testing Your Drive Test your drive to check the health of your FreeAgent drive. The diagnostic utility performs its tests without affecting the data on your drive. To test your drive: Step 1: In the My Drives window, click External Storage. -
Page 9: Adjust Led Control
More Info. Adjust LED Control The LED Control feature allows you to control the lights on your FreeAgent drive. Your drive lights flicker to indicate drive activity and status. This feature is only available for FreeAgent drives. -
Page 10: Storage Features
Step 3: To close the Drive Info window, click OK. Storage Features Using External Storage, you store files on your FreeAgent drive. You can backup or restore your files using your FreeAgent drive. Using Online Storage, you store files on the Internet using the Seagate Online Storage website. - Page 11 Managing Your Drives Storage Features • To access the Seagate Online Storage website, click Online in the command panel. A web browser window opens and the Seagate Online Storage website appears. For more information about backing up and restoring files, see Backing Up and...
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Page 12: Backing Up And Restoring Folders On A Freeagent Drive And To Online Storage
Internet, with the Seagate Online Storage feature. Each file you choose to back up from your computer is copied to your FreeAgent drive or Seagate Online Storage. If you ever lose one of the original files on your computer, you can easily restore it from the backup version. -
Page 13: Backup Features
• Back up your files to an encrypted folder After the initial backup, Seagate Manager backs up changed files in backed-up folders on a schedule you set or when you click Back Up Now in the Backup window. The Seagate Manager backup feature does not back up locked files. -
Page 14: Backup Plans For Your Freeagent
Backing Up and Restoring Folders on a FreeAgent Drive and to Online Storage Backup Features Backup Plans for your FreeAgent You can create one Backup Plan for each FreeAgent drive connected to your computer. You can select either of two types of Backup Plans: •... -
Page 15: Creating A Backup Plan
Terms and Conditions link. Step 10: Click Create Account. If you clicked Online in step 3, A web browser opens and the Seagate Online Storage Log Note: In page appears. If you wish, you can log in to review the features available on the Seagate Online Storage website. -
Page 16: Using Simple Backup With Online Storage
Backing Up and Restoring Folders on a FreeAgent Drive and to Online Storage Creating a Backup Plan Step 3: Click Backup in the Command panel. The Backup window opens. Step 4: Click Simple Backup. A Simple Backup Confirmation window confirms that you’ve selected Simple Backup and asks you to name this Backup Plan. - Page 17 Backing Up and Restoring Folders on a FreeAgent Drive and to Online Storage Creating a Backup Plan The Backup Folder Selection window opens. Step 5: Name your Backup Plan, select the folders to be backed up, and click Next. The Backup File Types window opens.
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Page 18: Creating A Custom Backup With Online Storage
Step 3: Click Backup in the Command panel. The Backup Online Storage window opens. If you have already created an External Storage backup plan for your FreeAgent drive, you Note: can select Copy the existing folder selection, to select the same folders for online backup that you chose for backup to your FreeAgent drive. -
Page 19: Drive Rotation With Freeagent
Step 1: Connect the first FreeAgent drive to which you want to back up your files. Step 2: Click My Drives in the command panel. -
Page 20: Managing Backup Settings
Step 7: Edit the days and/or time you want to back up your folders. If this drive previously participated in Drive Rotation (sharing a backup plan with another FreeAgent drive), the Next button is displayed. If not, the Finish button is displayed. -
Page 21: Editing Backup Settings For Online Storage
Scheduled Backup is turned on. Deleting a Backup Plan for FreeAgent You can delete the Backup Plan for any FreeAgent drive on which you’ve created one, even if the drive is not connected to your computer. To delete a Backup Plan for your FreeAgent: Step 1: Click My Drives from the Command panel. -
Page 22: Deleting A Backup Plan For Online Storage
Your backed-up files are NOT deleted in Seagate Online. Note: Using Scheduled Backup Use Scheduled Backup to back up changed files to your FreeAgent drive or Seagate Online on the days and time you set. The Scheduled Backup On/Off switch enables or disables the backup plan schedule. -
Page 23: Backing Up Manually
Click the Seagate Status icon in the Taskbar notification area to display the Seagate Status menu. Step 2: Click Seagate Drive > View Backup Log to open a text file showing the history of your system backups. To view the Backup Log for your Seagate Online: Step 1: Click View Backup Log in the Backup Online Storage window. -
Page 24: Restoring Files
The Restore a Backup window opens. Restoring an Historical Version from FreeAgent To restore a specific historical version of a file that you backed up to your FreeAgent drive: Step 1: Click My Drives in the Command panel. Step 2: Select External Storage and click Backup. -
Page 25: Restoring An Historical Version From Online Storage
Restoring Most Recent Version from FreeAgent To restore the most recent version of a file that you backed up to your FreeAgent drive: Step 1: Click My Drives in the Command panel. Step 2: Select External Storage and click Backup. -
Page 26: Synchronizing Folders
With Sync, you can easily keep important files up to date in multiple locations. You select one or more folders on your computer to synchronize. Whenever any files change or are added inside your folder(s), they are automatically copied to your FreeAgent. You can even synchronize folders between different computers, which is convenient way to move files between a computer at work and a computer at home. -
Page 27: Using Simple Sync
Photos: JPG, GIF, TIFF, BUP,... — Music: MPG, AIFF, WAV, RA, WMA,... — Videos: AVI, MOV, MPEG, QT, RM, WMV,... — Documents: DOC, XLS, RTF, TXT, PDF, PPT,... • Custom Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent Drive... -
Page 28: Using Sync Encryption
— Ask before overwriting a file • Sync Encryption — Automatically encrypt synchronized files on the Seagate FreeAgent drive You must set up Encryption before you can select Sync Encryption. See Using Sync Encryption for more information. You can select Sync Encryption only during your initial setup of Sync. If you later decide... -
Page 29: Completing The Sync
Completing the Sync To complete the Sync, you must remove your FreeAgent drive from the computer on which the original Sync occurred and connect it to another computer on which you want to sync the selected folders. -
Page 30: Editing Sync Settings
OK. From now on, the selected folders will automatically sync with the versions on your Seagate FreeAgent drive each time you connect the drive to the computer. Editing Sync Settings To change any of your Sync settings: Step 1: Click Sync in the Command panel. -
Page 31: Using Automatic Sync
The original Sync window opens. Step 4: To create new Sync settings, select Simple Sync or Custom Sync. If you delete your synchronized files in the Seagate Sync folder on your FreeAgent, you Note: can recover the last two versions of those files in the “SyncRecycleBin01” and “SyncRecycleBin02”... -
Page 32: Using The Sync Preview Window
Sync Preview window opens. To use the Sync Preview window, Step 4: Use the On checkbox to tell Seagate Manager which file versions to overwrite, add, or delete. Step 5: Click Sync Now to complete the sync. -
Page 33: Using Automatic Overwrite
When Automatic Overwrite is on, older file versions are always replaced with newer versions. When Automatic Overwrite is off, the Seagate Manager displays the Sync Preview window to allow you to decide whether to overwrite an older file version with a new version. -
Page 34: Managing Security
Encryption is not available in all regions or with all products. Note: Figure 1: Security Creating an Encryption Folder Step 1: Click Security in the Command panel to open the Security window. Step 2: Click Encryption in the Security window. Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent Drive... - Page 35 Step 4: Click Create Folder. Your Encryption folder opens. Figure 2: Encryption folder Step 5: Drag files and folders into your Encryption folder as you would into any folder. Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent Drive...
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Page 36: Managing An Encryption Folder
To change your Encryption password, Step 1: Click Security in the Command panel. The Security window opens. Step 2: Click Encryption. The Manage Encryption window opens. Step 3: Click Change Password. Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent Drive... -
Page 37: Deleting An Encryption Folder
A Delete Encryption folder confirmation window opens. Step 7: Click OK. Opening an Encryption folder To open an Encryption folder, Step 1: Click Security in the Command panel. The Security window opens. Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent Drive... -
Page 38: Decrypting Files And Folders
After you open your Encryption folder on the first computer and user account with which Note: you use Seagate Manager, it will be saved on that computer so that will never need to enter it again. When opening your Encryption folder from another computer or user account, however, you will need to enter your password. -
Page 39: Deleting Files And Folders From An Encryption Folder
Deleting Files and Folders from an Encryption folder To delete files and folders from your Encryption folder, Step 1: Select the items to be deleted in the Encryption folder and click Delete in the toolbar. Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent Drive... -
Page 40: Seagate And Maxtor Seagate Secure
Unlocking your Seagate Secure Drive Step 1: Click My Drives in the Command panel and select External Storage. Step 2: Select your Seagate Secure drive and click the Security icon in the Command panel. Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent Drive... - Page 41 Make sure the caps lock key is off when you are typing your password (unless your password is in all capital letters). If you have more than one Seagate Secure drive connected at the same time, make sure you have selected the drive that you are trying to unlock (the large light on the drive will blink when it is selected).
- Page 42 The Security ID is a 25-character code printed on the bottom of the drive case. Step 4: Click Delete Password Hint. The Password Hint Deleted window appears. Step 5: Click OK. Your password hint is now deleted. Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent Drive...
- Page 43 KeyErase KeyErase completely removes ALL data from your Seagate Secure drive. This feature is provided as the only way for you to regain access to your Seagate Secure drive if you forget your password. This extra level of security is provided so that if your drive were to fall into the wrong hands, your valuable data could not be stolen.
- Page 44 Step 6: Click OK. Your Seagate Secure drive has now been erased. The Configure Drive screen appears. Step 7: Enter the Security ID for your Seagate Secure drive, then create and confirm a new password. Step 8: Click Set. If you want to set a password hint, to help you remember your password (in case you forget it), you have the option to do so here.
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Page 45: Index
Seagate Manager software custom sync file extensions custom sync, about file system file types, synchronizing decrypting files, overwriting older versions Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent Drive... - Page 46 Seagate Secure sync encryption setting hints for Seagate Secure sync encryption sync preview window power setting sync settings previewing synchronized files editing synchronizing about recent versions of files Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent Drive xlvi...
- Page 47 Index folders see also sync terms and conditons, of Seagate Online Storage testing drives turning off automatic sync updating software volume Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent Drive xlvii...