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Back Up Now! (Windows)

Connect your storage device to your computer and you’re ready to back up your important files and folders. The fastest way to back up is to select items on your computer and copy them to your drive by dragging and dropping. If you want to continuously sync data between your computer and your drive, you can create an automated Sync Plus plan with Tookit.

Open a File Explorer window and click on your drive

Windows 7—Use Windows Explorer to drag and drop items.

Open another File Explorer window and select folders or files on your computer to back up

Drag items to your drive

Open a File Explorer window and select folders or files on your computer to back up

Windows 7—Use Windows Explorer to select items.

Click Copy on the Home menu

Other ways to copy to the clipboard
  • Hold down the Ctrl key and press C.
  • Right-click on files and select Copy from the context menu.

Click on your drive

Click Paste on the Home menu

Other ways to paste files copied to the clipboard
  • Hold down the Ctrl key and press V.
  • Right-click on files and select Paste from the context menu.

Set up a Toolkit Sync Plus plan

Toolkit's easy-to-use Sync Plus feature continuously syncs data between your computer and your drive, ensuring your files are available in both places. Whenever you add, edit, or delete files on one device, Sync Plus automatically updates the files on the other.

Stay in sync Sync folders on your PC with folders on your drive.
Archive deleted files Automatically copy files you’ve deleted to the archive folder on your drive.

For details, see the Toolkit User Manual.

Windows also has backup solutions. For details, choose your version of Windows:

Back Up Now! User Manual

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