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What are sub-accounts ?
How do I create a sub-account ?
What is the Advanced option ?
How do I edit a sub-account ?
How do I delete a sub-account ?
How many sub-accounts can I create ?
How to change my sub-account password?
How to provide 'restricted' access to
sub-account holders..a sample case
How do I create sub-accounts for read
only access?
What are the FTP limitations for sub-accounts?
How to implement department wide backups
using sub-accounts?
Which is the best option to create
a Sub-accounts when the directory structure is large?
How do you set the home directory of
a sub account to be a folder within a folder? |
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What
are sub-accounts ? |
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A Sub-Account is
an IBackup account that you can create on any folder in your online
backup account to provide access only to files (and folders) within
that folder to other employees and business partners. A Sub-Account
has access to all IBackup features except the main account's profile,
and is restricted to the folder assigned to it. Please visit Sub-Accounts
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How
do I create a sub-account ? |
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Sub-Accounts can
be created by subscription users opting for work group plans only.
The number of sub-accounts created depends on the subscription plan.
You can create
a sub-account from Web-Manager (the browser application) for a specific
folder within your main account by simply navigating INTO that folder
and clicking on 'sub-accounts'. How would you navigate to a folder?
Simply click on a folder, you would 'navigate' INTO that folder.
You can select the home folder of the sub-account in the following
way:
1. Folder with
the sub-account username in the current folder by simply entering
the account information and clicking on "Create New" button.
2. Any other folder by clicking on "Advanced>>"
button.
3. To the current
folder by selecting the options "Select current folder as the
home folder for the Sub-Account" before step 1.
Click to see the
actual steps of creating
a sub-account. |
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What
is the Advanced option ? |
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By clicking on
Advanced button while creating a subaccount, you can select
a folder which will be the subaccounts homefolder. |
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How
do I edit a sub-account ? |
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By clicking on
Edit for a selected subaccount in the Sub Account maintenance
section, you can edit the sub account where you have the options to
change the password, email address or quota for the selected sub account. |
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How
do I delete a sub-account ? |
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To delete a Sub-account,
login to your main account via browser based Web-Manager. Goto 'Sub
Accounts' section and click on the 'Delete' link. By clicking on Delete
option, you can delete the sub account. Deleting a sub account will
not erase the data or data contained within the sub account.
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How
many sub-accounts can I create ? |
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The number of sub-accounts
created depends on the subscription plan. The number of sub-accounts
are customizable. Please contact us at support@ibackup.com
for details. |
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How
to change my sub-account password? |
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You can change
password for sub accounts also by going to 'Sub Accounts' section.
Here you will find a link to 'edit' sub accounts. After clicking
on this link, you will have a new page giving details about your
sub accounts. Please click on the 'Save Changes' button to change
the profile of the selected sub account holder.
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How
to provide 'restricted' access to sub-account holders..a sample case |
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Suppose you want to provide access to two of your employees/colleagues
in such a way that employee1 has access to all data except two folders
(say cash records and employee records), and Employee2 has access
to only two folders (say
Correspondence& Maintenance).
As a first
step, Create a sub-account for your employee1 say Secretary1. Create
a top level folder called Secretary1. Keep all your folders under
Secretary1 except those folders to which you do not want to give
access. Define home folder as Secretary1 folder for Secretary1 subaccount.
Now, Create
a folder say Secretary2 and map this folder as home folder for access
to your second employee -Secretary2. Under this folder, move the
two folders (say correspondence & maintenance) You can now provide
access to this subaccount (Secretary2) to your employee-Secretary2.
Also note that
deleting a sub account will not delete its contents. In view of
the above example, if you delete the sub accounts Secretary1 and
Secretary2 the contents or data in Other folders, Correspondence
and Maintenance will not be deleted or lost.
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How
do I create sub-accounts for read only access? |
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Click on 'Advanced'
when you create the sub-accounts, and follow the instructions on the
screen. If you want to edit an existing sub-account and convert it
to a read only sub-account, simply click on 'edit' on the sub-account
management screen, and check 'read only'.
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What
are the FTP limitations for sub-accounts? |
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Please note read
only sub-accounts do not support FTP. They will have to use IDrive,
IBackup for Windows or browser application to work with read only
sub-accounts. If they need FTP access, then they need to write enable
the sub-account. |
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How
to implement department wide backups using sub-accounts? |
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Here is a sample
scenario on how to implement the same. Let us say you need to backup
5 workstations, with a need to backup 2GB for each workstation.
First create a master account through IBackup's registration
for 10GB. Then, create 5 Sub-Accounts through Web-Manager, say sub1,
sub2...sub5 using the 'basic' option that automatically creates
top level folders with the same name as the Sub-Account name and
maps the Sub-Accounts to the respective top level folders. Make
sure you allocate quota for the Sub-Accounts appropriately (say
2GB for each Sub-Account) . Each Sub-Account will have its own username
and password. Now download the scheduling application IBackup
for Windows, use respective Sub-Accounts to login to IBackup,
set scheduling parameters. You can manage the entire backup of your
department's workstations using one master account for easier control
of data, space, and of course billing.
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Which
is the best option to create a Sub-accounts when the directory structure
is large? |
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"Advanced"
option loads the entire directory structure and it might hang for
large directory structures. The best way to create sub-account on
a folder is to navigate to the folder within Web-Manager and then
hit 'Sub-Accounts'. |
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How
do you set the home directory of a sub account to be a folder within
a folder? |
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You have to first
browse to the folder on which the sub-account needs to be created
within Web-Manager, and then click on 'Sub-Accounts' and follow directions.
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