User manual SEAGATE MANAGER FOR USE WITH YOUR FREEAGENT DRIVE

[. . . ] Seagate Manager User Guide For Use With Your FreeAgentTM Drive Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgentTM Drive 1 Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgentTM Drive Revision 1 © 2008 Seagate Technology LLC. Seagate, Seagate Technology, the Wave logo, and FreeAgent are trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC, or one of its affiliates. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. When referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one thousand billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. [. . . ] If this drive previously participated in Drive Rotation (sharing a backup plan with another drive), the Next button is displayed. If you clicked Finish: The Backup window now displays the new details of your backup and Scheduled Backup is turned on. If you clicked Next: The Backup Options window opens, showing a list of drives to which this plan backs up. Step 9: Uncheck any drive in the list to remove that drive from this backup plan and click Finish. Deleting a Backup Plan You can delete the Backup Plan for any drive on which you've created one, even if the drive is not connected to your computer. To delete a Backup Plan for your drive: Step 1: Click Backup in the Command panel. Step 3: Select the Backup Plan you want to delete by clicking its checkbox and click Delete. (Your backed up files are NOT deleted. ) Using Scheduled Backup Use Scheduled Backup to back up changed files to your drive on the days and time you set. The Scheduled Backup On/Off switch enables or disables the backup plan schedule. If Scheduled Backup is missed: Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgentTM Drive 17 Backing Up and Restoring Folders and Files Managing Backup Settings · because the computer is off, it automatically runs the next time the computer is booted. · because the drive is not connected, it automatically runs the next time the drive is connected. Turning Off Scheduled Backup To turn off Scheduled Backup: · In the Backup window, click the Scheduled Backup Off button. Backing Up Manually You can back up files manually whenever you like, whether Scheduled Backup is on or off or whether Seagate Manager is open or not. To launch a manual backup to your drive: · Click Back Up Now in the lower right corner of the Backup window. -- OR -- · Select Back Up Now from the Seagate Status icon menu: The Seagate Status icon turns yellow and the backup takes place in the background. To get the current information about your backup, move your mouse over the Seagate Status icon. A message appears with the information about your backup. Viewing the Backup Log The Backup Log is a text-based report of your backup history. To view the Backup Log for your drive: Click View Backup Log in the Backup window of Seagate Manager. -- OR -- Step 1: Click the Seagate Status icon in the Taskbar notification area to display the Seagate Status menu. Step 2: Click View Backup Log to open a text file showing the history of your system backups. Note: The Backup Log is in English only. Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgentTM Drive 18 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. Step 6: Click Restore an historical version of a backed up file to restore a previous version of a file. 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: Step 1: Click My Drives in the Command panel. Step 4: Click Restore the most recent version of a backed up file to restore the latest version of a file. Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgentTM Drive 19 Backing Up and Restoring Folders and Files Managing Backup Settings The Seagate Backup folder on your drive is displayed. Step 5: Browse to the desired file and drag it to the location where you want it restored. Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgentTM Drive 20 Synchronizing Folders Synchronizing Folders With Sync, you can easily keep important files up to date in multiple locations. Whenever any files change or are added inside your folder(s), they are automatically copied to your FreeAgent drive. [. . . ] A message informs you that a password hint has already been set and asks if you want to delete it or overwrite it with a new password hint. Step 6: Enter the 25-character identification code printed on the drive label. You can set a new password hint by following the original steps at any time. Retrieving a Password Hint To retrieve a password hint: Step 1: Click My Drives in the Command panel. Step 6: Enter the answer to the security question you selected when you set the password hint and click Show Hint. [. . . ]