Seagate STBW1000900 ユーザーズマニュアル
Protecting Your Data
Creating a Customized Backup Plan
Seagate Dashboard User Guide
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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.
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:
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The contents of the Windows directory
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The contents of the Program Files directory
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System files
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Hidden files
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Files on detachable USB drives
Creating a Customized Backup Plan
If you would like to have more control over how your data is backed up, you can customize a
backup plan. You can specify which files or directories get backed up, when the backup plan
runs, and where the backed-up files should be saved, either to a Dashboard-enhanced
Seagate drive or to Cloud Storage.
backup plan. You can specify which files or directories get backed up, when the backup plan
runs, and where the backed-up files should be saved, either to a Dashboard-enhanced
Seagate drive or to Cloud Storage.
The following is an example of how to create a customized backup plan. In this example, a
directory called Coins is backed up every day at 10:00pm.
directory called Coins is backed up every day at 10:00pm.
1.
On the Seagate Dashboard Home screen, click Protect.
2.
On the Protect screen, click the New Backup Plan button to display the Custom Backup
screen.
screen.