How To Backup Ipad Pro To External Hard Drive Without Computer. The iDiskk 1TB 1024GB iPad pro External Hard Drive is excellent for all of your Apple devices. Quit iTunes if you were running it previously then connect your external hard drive to your PC or Mac.
The second way to backup iPad to external hard drive is to manually transfer the file to iTunes. Backing up iPad files to the external hard drive to save them and share with other people is not possible to do it directly without using any software. Moreover you can also use this software to share data between iPhone and iPad.
Open the Files app.
The external storage is shown in the left side column. At the top of the Finder window click General. However it is a very rigid and complex form. Heres how you back up directly to external drive.