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Danimach
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

External HDD not available in the "Manage Backups" settings

I'm trying to set up a backup for my external 8TB Seagate Hub. The drive is not offered as an option under the "Manage Backups" settings on the desktop app. A USB memory card reader was recognized ...
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Nancy
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3 years ago

Welcome back, Danimach! Glad to hear the dialog box now appeared. 

 

Since the desktop app will start backing up your external hard drive, it will also need to sync those files anew along with the rest of your content, I’m afraid.

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Danimach
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

That's what I figured.

The content on my external HDD hasn't changed since I uploaded it to dropbox so I was hoping that there was some workaround that would point the backup feature to the files on already uploaded to dropbox to compare the folder structure.

 

Re-uploading 4TB of data using dropbox backup is going to take a long long time!!! I'm currently at 730GB...

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