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Sub-accounts for your online backup

Sub-accounts for your online backup

A Sub-Account is an IBackup account that you can create on any folder in your online storage 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/credit card information, and is restricted to the folder assigned to it. Advanced features include 'read only' sub-accounts which will not allow sub-accounts to upload files, delete files or rename files and are permitted only to download. Ability to add folders outside the hierarchy to a sub-account is another exciting new feature.


You can collaborate with your employees and business partners by creating
Sub-Accounts for them on different folders in your IBackup account. By this, you create distinct areas in your online backup accounts to exchange business or project related data files or documents files with your employees and business partners. This is a more advanced and flexible system compared to the 'public' and 'private' area concept used by competing storage providers.

Since Sub-Accounts won't have access to any other folder at the same level other than the ones assigned to them, (unless you explicitly assign a folder to more than one Sub-Account) it is a secure way of collaboration with multiple parties. However, Sub-Account holders can create any number of files and folders below the folder assigned to them, and are limited only by the storage space allocated to them by the master account holder.

Sub-Accounts are also a great way to implement department wide scheduled backups using a single account. With simplified one master account with one billing, in addition to the ability to manage data for all the Sub-Accounts from one account, you can create several Sub-Accounts and use IBackup for Windows application to schedule backups using those Sub-Accounts for all the desktops and servers for a department wide or even enterprise wide backups.

 
 
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Who can create sub-accounts?

Sub-Accounts feature is available only for subscription users opting for work group plans. Number of available Sub-Accounts for the subscription users is dependent on the subscription plan. Default Sub-Accounts availability is shown in the table beside.

For businesses needing more Sub-Accounts than what is mentioned in our plans, customization options are available. Also, for businesses with a need to have automated account creation and maintenance using their existing authentication mechanisms, IBackup Professional Services Group can create custom solutions. For details, contact us at 1-800-949-3555 or email us at info@ibackup.com.
Workgroup Plans Number of Sub-Accounts
1 GB 3 Sub-Accounts
2 GB 5 Sub-Accounts

How does it help B2B data exchange and businesses?

An enterprise could create its web accessible data in a logical way that most accurately represents its business data structure and flow. An administrator could manage all the data structure and flow, and create Sub-Accounts for the employees, customers and suppliers with appropriate folders mapped to those Sub-Accounts.

Now, with the browser based IBackup applications, desktop based network drive and scheduler applications, and wireless based applications, each Sub-Account holder could interact with other parties in the most logical, productive manner improving communications and efficiency, resulting in high ROI.

Note: Please note that the Sub-Account usernames are considered as real usernames by all IBackup applications and they need to be unique and can not clash with other usernames.

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