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Chapter 8. Managing Acronis Secure Zone

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. After this, you will be prompted to activate Acronis Recovery Manager, which will enable

you to start Acronis True Image Server for Windows at boot time by pressing F11 key.

Alternatively, you can activate this feature later from main program window.

6. Then you will see a list of operations to be performed on partitions (disks).

After you click Proceed, Acronis True Image Server for Windows will start creating the zone.

Progress will be reflected in a special window. If necessary, you can stop zone creation by

clicking Cancel. However, the procedure will be canceled only after the current operation is

finished.

Acronis Secure Zone creation might take several minutes or more. Please wait until the

whole procedure is finished.