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8.4.1 Acronis Secure Zone

The Acronis Secure Zone is a secure partition that lets you keep backups on a managed machine disk

space. This lets you recover a disk where the disk backup resides.

When you create an Acronis Secure Zone, an icon appears under My Computer in the Other section.

Double-clicking on the Acronis Secure Zone icon opens the Secure Zone and you can view all the

backups it contains. You can also open the Secure Zone by right-clicking on its icon and choosing

Open in the shortcut menu.

Double-clicking on a backup icon shows all backup versions (full, incremental, differential) contained

in that backup. Right-clicking on a specific backup version opens the shortcut menu allowing you to

choose a desired operation. For example, you can choose explore, mount (for image backups),

recover, validate, update, remove the backup, and view the backup's details. If Acronis Secure Zone

is password-protected, any operation, except viewing backup details, will require entering the

password. Double-clicking on a backup will open the backup.

The shortcut menu that appears after right-clicking on the Acronis Secure Zone icon has two more

items – Open and Create Shortcut (for placing it on the Desktop).

The Acronis Secure Zone is available as a location to store backup files as long as it has free space. If

there is not enough space, older backups will be deleted to create free space.

True Image 2013 uses the following approach to clean up the Acronis Secure Zone:

 If you are in the process of creating a backup and there is not enough free space in the zone to

create it, the program will display a dialog which warns you that the Acronis Secure Zone is full.

You can click Cancel to cancel the backup operation. In that case, you may want to increase the

size of the Acronis Secure Zone and then run the backup operation again. If you want to free up

some space in the zone, click OK and the oldest full backup version of the type being created will

be deleted with all subsequent incremental/differential backup versions. The backup operation

will then recommence.

 If deleting the oldest backup does not free up enough space, you will get the same warning

message again. You may delete the next oldest backup (if any) and repeat this until all the

previous backups are deleted.

 If after deleting all the previous backups there is still not enough space for completing the

backup, you will get an error message and the backup will be canceled.

The program distinguishes only two types of backups in the zone: image backups and file-level

backups. File and E-mail backups are considered as file-level type backups. For example, if you have

an e-mail backup in the zone and there is not enough space for backing up a folder, the program will

delete the e-mail backup to free up space for the folder backup.

You can use the Acronis Secure Zone as the storage for virtual system changes in the Try mode. The

Try&Decide data will be automatically cleaned up after you stop a Try&Decide session.

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