# Activate Backup

> Activate Backup for your company — the user name, the contact address, the password and the modules that cost extra.

Source: https://docs.incabus.com/en/cloud/backup/new/

Last updated 25 Oct 2026

When you activate Backup, your company gets a backup account: one user name
that all your servers sign in with, in the backup client and at
backup.incabus.com. Each server then gets its own job on the account.

**Requires the administrator or owner role.** Others see a line saying who
can activate it.

Open the page with **Activate Backup** on the [overview](https://docs.incabus.com/en/cloud/backup/), when
your company does not have Backup yet.

*Screenshot: Activate Backup*

## Fill in

- **User name** — not chosen, but built from your customer number and
  company name, such as `cb4632-exempelbolaget`.
- **Contact email** — backup reports and notices from the backup service
  are sent here. Your own address is suggested; you may prefer a shared IT
  address.
- **Password** — **Create one for me**, or **Choose a password** and type
  it twice (at least 12 characters).

## Modules that cost extra

The standard modules are turned on — they are listed in the **Included**
card. Modules that cost per unit are turned on in the **Modules that cost
extra** box:

- **VMware**, **Hyper-V**, **Exchange, mailboxes** and
  **Microsoft 365, mail and OneDrive** — tick and set a cap, for example
  the most virtual machines that may be backed up. You pay per unit
  actually backed up, not for the cap.
- **Synology NAS** and **QNAP NAS** — a fixed price per month.

The price is shown with each module.

## Activate

Choose **Activate Backup** and confirm in the box that opens. Storage is
invoiced every month from now on.

If we created the password, it is shown **once**, right after, together
with the user name and buttons that copy them. **Save the password then** —
it is not shown again, and we cannot see it either.

## Related

- [Backup](https://docs.incabus.com/en/cloud/backup/)
- [Price calculator](https://docs.incabus.com/en/cloud/backup/pricing/)