Spatie's Laravel Components are surely known to most and are great helpers to build any kind of Laravel application or website. I've been using the on my projects. With my recent shift to on my new project , I've started to look at the related . It worked fine, once I got over some initial trouble. Spatie' Laravel Backup component Laravel Nova Nova component Once completed installing Spatie Backups, I've run a to see if it works: local backups worked as to expect and are considered "healthy": artisan backup:run As usual, I've continued to set up B2 as my cloud filesystem and backup solution. The setup of is easy and done in a few minutes. B2 as your Laravel backup system After this, I've installed the Nova component for Laravel backups using composer: and configured the tools as explained. While checking the Nova admin interface I've noticed that it isn't working as expected. The loading icons kept spinning without any data showing up: composer require spatie/nova-backup-tool After checking the Firefox browser console I've noticed an odd HTTP-422 request with this message: The message contained an error message, which I've not seen on the admin-panel: This disk is not configured as a backup disk. After some research in the code, I've found out this error was caused by a small misconfiguration in the `config/backup.php` file: Once I've set this to B2 the backup overview & creation worked as expected: I'm solving & documenting random issues I encounter in the daily coder life. Besides this, I'm writing about business and my side-projects. If you are interested in either of them, subscribe to my ! newsletter Previously published at https://peterthaleikis.com/posts/nova-spatie-backup:-keeps-spinning-422-error:-%22this-disk-is-not-configured-as-a-backup-disk.%22/