Backup

Learn how to create backups of your files, applications, and virtual machines for local, cloud, or hybrid backups.

• Creating and Scheduling Your First Backup Job
• Setting Up a Hybrid Backup (Local and Cloud)
• Monitoring Running Jobs on the Activity Page
• Reviewing Job History
• Backing Up System State, SQL Server, and Hyper-V
• Understanding Backup Retention
• The "Open File Backup" (VSS) backup job option in NovaBACKUP client, for backup jobs (of any type and selection criteria), will not be able to function on a volume that is larger than 64 TB in size (according to Microsoft directly)
• Fix "switching to cache channel" backup log error; which means that the client machine can't reach the storage server endpoint address
• Some Buffalo NAS devices have a default enabled setting that can lock out the user and source IP address when NovaBACKUP tries to authenticate to it (during a 'Local Backup' device add, etc.)
• Disabling NAS Recycle Bin for the Backup Destination Share
• Enabling Windows File Compression on FPI/Logs/Temp folders (version 21.x and newer)
• How to change the location of the FPI data folder (the 'FPIDataDir' variable)
• Advanced NAS Troubleshooting
• Backup & Restore jobs that use 'Local Backup' or 'Cloud Backup' device, if a network path is in the job selection, or is the target path, may need a local user created on the client machine, and require "Run as specified user" job setting set to that user
• NovaBACKUP Incremental Forever Backup with Rotational Media
• Migrating a Legacy Job to a Local Backup or Cloud Backup Device
• Setting Up Email Notifications for Backup Jobs
• How to Set Up Microsoft 365 Backup with NovaBACKUP