Acronis Secure Zone; Creating Acronis Secure Zone; Acronis Secure Zone Disk - ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition User Manual

6.8 Acronis Secure Zone

Acronis Secure Zone is a secure partition that enables keeping backup archives on a managed
machine disk space and therefore recovery of a disk to the same disk where the backup resides.
Certain Windows applications, such as Acronis disk management tools, can access the zone.
To learn more about the advantages and limitations of the Acronis Secure Zone, see the Acronis
Secure Zone (p. 44) topic in the "Proprietary Acronis technologies" section.
6.8.1

Creating Acronis Secure Zone

You can create Acronis Secure Zone while the operating system is running or using bootable media.
To create Acronis Secure Zone, perform the following steps.
Space
Disk (p. 232)
Choose a hard disk (if several) on which to create the zone. Acronis Secure Zone is created
using unallocated space, if available, or at the expense of the volume's free space.
Size (p. 233)
Specify the exact size of the zone. Moving or resizing of locked volumes, such as the volume
containing the currently active operating system, requires a reboot.
Settings
Password (p. 233)
[Optional] Protect the Acronis Secure Zone from unauthorized access with a password. The
prompt for the password appear at any operation relating to the zone.
After you configure the required settings, click OK. In the Result confirmation (p. 233) window,
review the expected layout and click OK to start creating the zone.
6.8.1.1

Acronis Secure Zone Disk

The Acronis Secure Zone can be located on any fixed hard drive. Acronis Secure Zone is always
created at the end of the hard disk. A machine can have only one Acronis Secure Zone. Acronis
Secure Zone is created using unallocated space, if available, or at the expense of the volumes' free
space.
The Acronis Secure Zone cannot be organized on a dynamic disk or a disk using the GPT partitioning style.
To allocate space for Acronis Secure Zone
1. Choose a hard disk (if several) on which to create the zone. The unallocated space is selected by
default. The program displays the total space available for the Acronis Secure Zone.
2. If you need to allocate more space for the zone, you can select volumes from which free space
can be taken. Again, the program displays the total space available for the Acronis Secure Zone
depending on your selection. You will be able to set the exact zone size in the Acronis Secure
Zone Size (p. 233) window.
3. Click OK.
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