What is the Acronis Secure Zone and how is it used?
I am using Vista Ultimate as an OS and Acronis® True Image Home® version 11.0 (build 8,101) as a backup.
Acronis has something called Acronis Secure Zone. As I understand it, it is necessary to have Acronis partition your hard drive in order to get things backed up and restored correctly. So I said "yes" and my 69 GB backup hard drive was partitioned and, now, all the space I have for backups is about half of the 69 GB and there is another partition, which cannot be seen, and is empty. I don't know how to use this empty partition and I don't have room on the partition I can see to keep the last backup plus have room for the new one. I also am wondering why I should save the system state. What does that do for me?
Acronis has something called Acronis Secure Zone. As I understand it, it is necessary to have Acronis partition your hard drive in order to get things backed up and restored correctly. So I said "yes" and my 69 GB backup hard drive was partitioned and, now, all the space I have for backups is about half of the 69 GB and there is another partition, which cannot be seen, and is empty. I don't know how to use this empty partition and I don't have room on the partition I can see to keep the last backup plus have room for the new one. I also am wondering why I should save the system state. What does that do for me?
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Oka, so I don't need the secure zone and have deleted it. Makes no sense as to why I should have a FAT32 partition on my hard drive, anyway.
Now, I need to know why I need to back up my system state. What good is that? Seems like I want to save an image of my hard drive and when my computer crashes to, restore it. So I have asked Acronis to archive my "C" drive. I hope this is the right thing to do. I don't know how to test it, as I would have to do a restore to a fully functional hard drive. The only way to test it would be when my computer crashes.
Now, I need to know why I need to back up my system state. What good is that? Seems like I want to save an image of my hard drive and when my computer crashes to, restore it. So I have asked Acronis to archive my "C" drive. I hope this is the right thing to do. I don't know how to test it, as I would have to do a restore to a fully functional hard drive. The only way to test it would be when my computer crashes.
Make a backup image for emergency case, and store in same hard drive is not good .... if the drive failed. I would create an backup image to external drive or into DVDs, but remember you have to make a rescue boot disc during making backup image (during wizard) . In case of system crashed, insert that rescue disc in, boot system from it, map to image backup from either external drive or DVD's .... and restore system ....
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From what I have read, the Acronis disk is bootable. Would that eliminate a need to create a rescue boot disk?
I do my backups to a removable drive that is separate from my primary drive.
So, if I have an image of my Primary drive, it is useless if I have a crash and haven't created a rescue disk...yes?
So, every time I backup my primary drive, I should also create a rescue disk?
I do my backups to a removable drive that is separate from my primary drive.
So, if I have an image of my Primary drive, it is useless if I have a crash and haven't created a rescue disk...yes?
So, every time I backup my primary drive, I should also create a rescue disk?
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You dont need that at all, in my opinion, it is a waste of space of hard drive.