NovaBACKUP 21 User Guide (English)
  • NovaBACKUP 21 User Guide
  • NovaBACKUP Components
    • Supported NovaBACKUP versions & upgrade paths
    • Overview of the NovaBACKUP Components
    • System Requirements
    • Useful how-to articles
  • NovaBACKUP Basic Ideas
    • Backup Principles
      • Hybrid Backup
      • How Incremental Forever Backup Handles the Retention Settings (explanation)
    • Backups
      • Create a File Backup job
      • Create a Plugin Backup job
    • Restores
      • Restore of Hybrid enabled backups
      • Import backup records by device
        • How to import backups stored on a 'Local Backup' Device in NovaBACKUP 20.1.x versions (20.1 and newer versions), including the special instructions for if the new or other computer you need to import the 'Local Backup' device on differs for the Domain and Computer name values as compared to the original computer that had performed the backups on that 'Local Backup' device.
        • How to import backups stored on a 'Cloud Backup' Device in NovaBACKUP 20.1.x versions (20.1 and newer versions), including the special instructions for if the new or other computer you need to import the 'Cloud Backup' device on differs for the Domain and Computer name values as compared to the original computer that had performed the backups on that 'Cloud Backup' device.
      • Import backup records for individual at rest backups (this only works for the Legacy device types)
      • Mount File Backup
    • Schedules
    • Devices
      • Create a Local Backup Device
      • Create a Cloud Backup Device
      • Legacy Backup devices (and how to enable it)
    • NovaBACKUP 21 Quick Start Guide (imported)
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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 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 "" or a "" 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:

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).

And in this example of the same backup client, but with the "ShowLegacyDevices" flag enabled in it, covered in the "" 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):

Legacy Backup devices (and how to enable it)
here
Local Backup
Cloud Backup