Difference between disable and delete

The following table lists the difference between disable and delete.

Disable devices

To disable devices

1. On the inSync Management Console menu bar, click Devices.
2. Select the devices that you want to disable.
3. Click Disable.

Enable devices

Enabling a device resumes data backup from the device to inSync Master.

To enable devices

1. On the inSync Management Console menu bar, click Devices.
2. Select the devices that you want to enable.
3. Click Enable.

Note: When you enable a device, the inSync Client can take up to 30 minutes to perform the manual backup, scheduled backup, restore, auto-upgrade, decommission, and sync operations.

Delete devices

This action deletes devices from the device list of inSync Management Console. As a result, irrespective of the inSync Client versions installed:

• inSync stops data backup from the deleted devices immediately after the device is deleted.
• inSync immediately deletes all the backup data of the deleted device. Thus, you cannot restore data to the deleted device.

However, the behavior of inSync Client 5.8 and earlier is different from that of inSync Client 5.9 when devices running the respective clients are deleted from inSync Management Console.

The following table lists the difference in behavior between inSync Client version 5.8 and earlier against those running 5.9 and later when a device is deleted. 

To delete devices:

1. On the inSync Management Console menu bar, click Data Sources > Devices.
2. Select the devices that you want to delete.
3. Click Delete.