How to Backup iPad to External Hard Drive

Regularly backing up your iPad is a good habit. It can help you restore your iPad if you run into any problems, such as mistaken deletion, failed iOS upgrade, or other unexpected reasons. But due to the limited storage space of computer, you probably cannot backup all the data of your iPad to computer. At this moment, you may think about backing up your iPad to external hard drive. However, as we all know, you just cannot transfer your iPad data to external hard drive directly. Is there any method to solve this problem? The answer is definitely Yes. Thanks to AnyTrans, a professional iOS data manager tool can help you make it without effort. Just keep reading to get it.

The Tool You Need

AnyTrans, an easy-to-use iOS data manager is all you need to backup iPad to external hard drive. You can transfer the most important data like music, photos, videos and more from iPad to external hard drive directly. It allows you to preview your data on iPad and select the data you needed to external hard drive. AnyTrans also supports transferring more than 20 kinds of data from iPad to iTunes/computer or to another iDevice. You can always put your important data in the right place.

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Want to give it a try? Click here to download AnyTrans and follow the steps below to backup iPad to external hard drive.

How to Backup iPad to External Hard Drive

Step 1: Launch AnyTrans > Connect your iPad to computer > Plug in your external hard drive.

Step 2: Click on Content to Mac button on the homepage.

Step 3: Select the data you want to backup > Click the Select button to set your external hard drive as the destination > Tap Start Transfer.

The Bottom Line

AnyTrans can be your good helper in managing your iPad data, why not download AnyTrans to give it a try? If you have any questions on this guide or AnyTrans, please feel free to contact us via . We will reply to you as early as possible.