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Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive

Backing Up and Restoring Folders and Files

Managing Backup Settings

Restoring Files

When you back up the files stored in selected folders, Seagate Manager can save up to ten
(10) previous, or historical, versions of each revised file stored on your drive. You can restore
a saved historical version of a backed-up file based on the date it was last modified, or you can
restore the file’s most recent version.

Note:

If you encrypted your backup, your files are restored only based on the date they were
backed up.

Restoring an Historical Version

To restore a specific historical version of a file that you backed up to your drive:

Step 1:

Click My Drives in the Command panel.

The My Drives page opens.

Step 2:

Select your drive.

Step 3:

Click Backup.

The Backup window opens.

Step 4:

Click Restore Files.

Step 5:

The Restore a Backup window opens.

Step 6:

Click Restore an historical version of a backed up file to restore a previous

version of a file.

The Restore window opens.

Step 7:

Select a file and file version to be restored and click Restore.

The selected file version is restored to the location noted in the “Restore to folder”
section at the bottom of the window.

Restoring Most Recent Version

To restore the most recent version of a file that you backed up to your drive: