Operation Manual

Chapter 8. Managing Acronis Secure Zone

The Acronis Secure Zone is a special partition for storing archives on the computer system

itself. Acronis Secure Zone is necessary for using Acronis Startup Recovery Manager. For

more information about these functions see

3.3 Acronis Secure Zone

and

3.4 Acronis

Startup Recovery Manager

8.1 Creating Acronis Secure Zone

Acronis Secure Zone can be located on any local disk. It is created using unallocated space,

if available, or at the expense of free space on a partition. A computer can have only one

secure zone. To create a zone on another disk, you must first delete an existing zone.

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.

1. Before creating the Acronis Secure Zone, you may want to estimate its size. To do so,

start a backup and select all data you are going to backup into the Acronis Secure Zone. At

the Set Backup Options step choose Set the options manually, then set the

compression level. You will see the estimated full backup size. Multiply this by about 1.5 to

be able to create incremental or differential archives.

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

3. Select the partitions from which space will be used to create the zone.

4. In the next window, enter the size of the zone or drag the slider.

5. You can set a password to restrict access to Acronis Secure Zone. The program will ask

for the password at any operation relating to Acronis Secure Zone such as data backup and

recovery, mounting images or validating archives on the ASZ, resizing and deleting the ASZ.

Acronis True Image Home repair or update will not affect the password. However, if the

program is removed and then installed again while keeping the Acronis Secure Zone on the

disk, the password to ASZ will be reset.