"I have a Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB, and I want to backup data to that drive automatically, is there any Seagate hard drive backup software that help me? Thanks in advance."
As a matter of fact, there are 3 Seagate auto backup software provided in this article to help you, let's have a glance at the content:
Seagate Dashboard is the Seagate backup software preloaded on Seagate Backup Plus drive only to create backups and restore your data, adjust drive settings, Its compatible operating systems includes Windows XP, Vista (32-bit and 64-bit), Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit), and Windows 8. It has multiple features to protect your data:
If you want to install Seagate Dashboard on your hard drive, double click Seagate Dashboard Installer.dmg (for Mac), Seagate Dashboard Installer.exe (for Windows) to install.
To show you how the Seagate hard drive backup software - Seagate Dashboard works, here is how to backup data to Seagate Backup Plus drive:
There are some Seagate Dashboard not working problems that you might encounter when you are using Dashboard:
If the problem still exist, or search Seagate Dashboard for Windows 10, please try another Seagate external hard drive backup software - Seagate Toolkit.
Seagate Toolkit is for Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 to backup, restore and sync your files easily. The supported devices include Seagate Backup Plus series (Slim, Ultra, Portable, Desktop, Ultra), Fast SSD, FireCuda Dock, DJI Fly Drive, Expansion Plus, etc. And some of LaCie drives.
If you owns one of the above Seagate hard drives, you could backup data to Seagate hard drive with the Seagate backup software like the following:
Besides, Seagate Toolkit provides a little different features on different devices, and NOT All Seagate hard drives support Seagate Toolkit.
However, there are some Seagate Toolkit not working situations you might encounter, just try the following solutions to fix:
Now, you might curious about the difference between Seagate Dashboard and Toolkit, here it is:
If the above two Seagate auto backup software could not help you, you could try another reliable Seagate hard drive backup software - Qiling Disk Master Professional.
Compared with Seagate Dashboard and Seagate Toolkit, you'll discover that Qiling Disk Master Professional is more flexible and easy to use. It's highly recommended by millions of users due to its reliable performance and powerful featuers. You will get the following benefits:
Qiling Disk Master not only backup your data files but also backup system files, installed programs, etc just in case of system failure.
Here is the steps to backup data to Seagate external hard drive in Windows 10/8/7:
✍ Tip:
Backup Scheme: You can choose Full Backup, Incremental Backup or Differential Backup to backup changes since the last backup. Note that Incremental Backup require that all backups exist to be valid, otherwise you cannot use those backups to restore. It also allows you automatically delete old backup images when the backups exceed the number you specified after enabling backup scheme.
★ Tips:
◉ You can encrypt, comment, compress, and split the image file with Options, as well as enable email notification, use VSS, intelligence sector backup, etc.
◉After creating a disk backup, you can use this software to create a recovery environment or bootable media. With the Recovery Environment tool, you can easily perform system backup restore or other backups restore operations when the system crashes.
Get some coffee and wait for a moment, the progress will be finished quickly. The time it takes depending on the data size on Seagate external hard drive. Of course, you could backup Seagate external hard drive to other safe location as well according to the above steps.
In this article, you will get the top 3 Seagate hard drive backup software to backup data automatically or manually. Just find the suitable Seagate auto backup software to protect your critical data.
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