Creating Acronis Secure Zone - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 8.0 User Manual

Hide thumbs Also See for TRUE IMAGE 8.0:

User manual (97 pages)

Table Of Contents

Table of Contents

General program information

If you create a zone, it will be listed after all PC disks available for image creation

and restoration.

The Acronis Secure Zone is primarily meant to be used with Acronis Startup

Recovery Manager (see below). It can be used to store both images and data.

The zone is primarily made to manually or automatically create and restore disk

images safely. Therefore it is always available for image creation as long as there is

space for it. If there is not enough space, older images will be deleted to create

space.

This means you can automatically create disk images easily on a schedule (see

Chapter 9)., and you won't be bothered by zone overflow issues.

The Acronis Secure Zone can still be filled completely when creating incremental images (see

"Incremental images"). This happens because the program can't delete the first (complete)

image, since it might be required for restoration. Thus, you should periodically check zone

free space when creating incremental images, to increase it, if necessary, or re-create base

images.

Acronis Secure Zone can be located on any local disk. It is created at the expense of

unallocated space, if available, or at the expense of partition free space. A PC can

have only one secure zone. To create a zone on another disk, you must first delete

any existing zone.

You can store a disk (partition) image on the same disk (partition) if there's enough

space for it, but you should not keep your primary images on the same partition or

disk. You should burn images to removable media, such as a CD, DVD or Zip disks,

another hard disk or a network drive. The only reason to create an image on the

same partition (except for creating an image in the Acronis Secure Zone) is to use

the image as a local, secondary backup. This backup could be used to restore

damaged files. (Remember, if your disk becomes physically damaged, an image

stored on the same partition will be inaccessible.)

When you click Manage Acronis Secure Zone in the menu, the program searches

for the zone on all local drives. If a zone is found, the wizard will offer to delete or

resize it. If there is no zone, you'll be prompted to create it.

Before you create the zone, estimate its size. To do this, start image creation and

select disks and partitions to image into the zone. At the compression level stage,

you will see estimated image size. Multiply this by 1.5. If you plan to install

additional applications or create incremental images, increase the zone size.

3.2.1