Give your Seagate Backup Plus a Name. You’ll find it useful to give your Seagate Backup Plus drive a. The Seagate Backup Plus desktop drive for Mac simplifies backup for consumers who want to help protect their entire digital life locally, in the cloud, or from their mobile devices and social networks. High-speed USB 3.0 and 2.0 connectivity offers plug-and-play functionality on your Mac. The Backup Plus for Mac desktop drive has been designed to integrate smoothly with OS X for Mac computers, so it's simple to back up and protect your files. It's compatible with Time Machine backup software out of the box, and works interchangeably with Mac computers. The only way to ensure the files on your Mac desktop or MacBook are safe from from natural disasters, power outages and theft is to keep at least one copy at an offsite location. A cloud backup solution, like Carbonite ®, can protect both your Mac and your Time Capsule (or other external hard drive) from all of the most common forms of data loss.

1. How To Use Seagate Backup Plus
2. Seagate Backup Plus Setup
3. Backup Plus Desktop Drive
4. Backup Plus For Mac Desktop Drive
5. Seagate Backup Plus Desktop

How To Use Seagate Backup Plus

Backing up your Mac is simple and important. We recommend it for everyone.

Seagate Backup Plus Setup

Back up with Time Machine

Time Machine is the built-in backup feature of your Mac. It’s a complete backup solution, but you can use other backup methods as well.

Store files in iCloud

You can also use iCloud and iCloud Drive to store files, such as your photos, documents, and music.

Restore your Mac from a backup

When you have a backup, you can use it to restore your files at any time, including after the original files are deleted from your Mac.

Prepare your Mac for service

Making a backup is an important part of preparing your Mac for service, especially because some types of repair might require erasing or replacing your hard drive.

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How much space do I need for a backup?

To see the size of a specific file or folder, click it once and then press Command-I. To see storage information about your Mac, click the Apple menu in the top-left of your screen. Choose About This Mac and click the Storage tab. For Time Machine backups, it's good to use a drive that has at least twice the storage capacity of your Mac.

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Free up storage on your Mac

macOS can save space by storing your content in the cloud. This isn't a backup, but it includes new tools to make it easier to find and remove large or unwanted files before you make a backup.

Backup Plus For Mac Desktop Drive

Erase or format a storage device

You can use Disk Utility if you need to erase or format a storage device.

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If you can't back up your Mac

Seagate Backup Plus Desktop

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