Creating Acronis Secure Zone - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE SERVER 7.0 User Manual

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General program information

The Acronis Secure Zone is primarily meant for working together with Acronis

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

data, considering its properties.

The Acronis Secure Zone is primarily made to safely manually and automatically

create and restore disk images. Therefore the Acronis Secure Zone is always

available for image creation as long as it has space for it. If there's not enough

space, older images will be deleted to provide enough space.

This means you can easily create a scheduled task (see Chapter 9) to automatically

create disk images in the given time intervals. At that 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 (full) image, as

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 images from the first.

We don't recommend you to create alternating incremental images. If you need to create

incremental images of several disks (partitions), you should combine these operations into one.

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

the unallocated space, if it's available, or at the expense of partitions free space. A

PC can have only one Acronis Secure Zone. To create it on another disk, you must

first delete the existing zone.

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

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

delete or resize it. If such zone is absent, you'll be prompted to create it.

Before you create the Acronis Secure Zone, estimate its size. To do this start image

creation and select disks and partitions to image into the Acronis Secure Zone. At

the compression level stage you will see estimated image size. Multiply this by

about 1.5. If you plan to install additional applications or create incremental images,

increase the zone size even more.

Creating Acronis Secure Zone

If there are several disks installed, select one to create Acronis Secure Zone on.

Select partitions, which space will be used to create Acronis Secure Zone.

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