Seagate STCA4000100, STCB4000102 manual Introducing Seagate Dashboard, Seagate Dashboard Features

Introducing Seagate Dashboard Seagate Dashboard Features

1. Introducing Seagate Dashboard

Seagate® Dashboard is a powerful, yet easy-to-use utility for backing up your data and sharing and saving media on your social media networks.

This chapter describes the features of Seagate Dashboard, how to get started using the program, and the system requirements for the Windows® and Mac® versions of the program.

Seagate Dashboard Features

Seagate Dashboard includes the following features:

•Data protection (Windows only): Back up your data continuously or on a schedule, either to a Dashboard-enhanced Seagate drive or to an online Cloud Storage account.

•Picture and video sharing: Use Seagate Dashboard to upload your pictures and videos to popular social networking services such as Facebook, Flickr®, and YouTube.

•Picture saving: Set up Seagate Dashboard to download and save pictures posted on your social media accounts to your Seagate drive.

•Seagate drive management: Control settings for your Seagate drive, including the power-save feature and LED settings.

Protecting Your Data (Windows Only)

With Seagate Dashboard’s Protect feature, you can start backing up your system with a single click, or you can customize the feature to back up your data according to a set schedule.

You can specify which files or directories get backed up and where the backed-up files are saved, either to a Dashboard-enhanced Seagate drive, or to the online Seagate Cloud Storage Service Powered by Nero. If you need to restore a file from a backup drive, you can select from multiple historical versions of the file.

See “Protecting Your Data” on page 9 for information on how to use the Protect feature.

Seagate Cloud Storage Service Powered by Nero

Included with your Seagate drive is a free subscription to the Seagate Cloud Storage Service Powered by Nero.

Note: Seagate Central does not support cloud storage.

Cloud Storage is a secure, reliable place to store your backed-up data online. The free subscription includes one year of service and four gigabytes of secure online storage. You can optionally upgrade your online storage capacity to as much as 100 gigabytes.

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