Devices

The Device tab in the backup client consists of a list of current devices that have been added to the backup client, such as Local Backup devices and Cloud Backup (S3) devices, however by default and out of the box for a clean install of the NovaBACKUP 21 software, you will not see any real actual devices listed in that dialog yet (and for upgrade client installs you will see only the non-Legacy Backup devices in that case, unless you have enabled the "ShowLegacyDevices=1" flag that is). Since Legacy Backup Devices are disabled by default starting in NovaBACKUp 21, if you want to enable Legacy Backup devices then follow the topic that we have on that here first. The Device dialog has button functions at the bottom to "Add" a device, "Delete" a device, and to "Refresh" manually the device tab dialog, there is also a "Properties" button but that button won't show unless you have at least one device added.

This is what the "Device" tab in the backup client will look like by default (after a clean install, out of the box), and you normally at this point will want to create a "Local Backup" or a "Cloud Backup" device at this point, which you can follow those hyperlinked topics on how to do that:

And here is an example of a backup client that has many devices listed, which are all non-Legacy devices. Note: In this case there are no legacy device types listed, because the "ShowLegacyDevices" option is not enabled:

And in this example of the same backup client, but with the "ShowLegacyDevices" flag enabled in it, covered in the "Legacy Backup devices (and how to enable it)" topic, where now the additional C: and E: local drive letters do display as legacy devices now (as compared to the same example client above, that does not have that flag enabled yet):

Note: Some listed NovaBACKUP device types in the "Devices" tab dialog cannot have the "Delete" button function or the "Properties" button function accessed (clicked) on them, because those devices are Managed devices (and are not unmanaged devices), meaning that they were devices that were not created in the client UI, they were created in the companion CMon UI (Central Monitoring application) in that case. Unmanaged NovaBACKUP devices are what we will cover in this guide, other than to point that difference or caveat out here in this paragraph, to clear up why you may not be able to click on those two buttons on some of your devices in that case (which does apply to the two 'Local Backup' and 'Cloud Backup' device types).