Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 107Chapter 9. Managing the Acronis SecureZoneThe Acronis Secure Zone is a special partition for storing archives on the computer systemitself. For more information, see3.3 Acronis Secure Zone.When you click Manage Acronis Secure Zone in the menu, the program searches forthe zone on all local drives. If a zone is found, the wizard will offer to manage it(consolidate or remove backups, resize or change the password) or delete. If there is nozone, you’ll be prompted to create it.If the Acronis Secure Zone is password-protected, the proper password must be enteredbefore any operation can take place.9.1 Creating Acronis Secure ZoneThe Acronis Secure Zone can be located on any internal disk. It is created usingunallocated space, if available, or at the expense of free space on a partition. Partitionresizing may require a reboot.A computer can have only one Acronis Secure Zone. To create a zone on another disk,you must first delete an existing zone.1. Before creating a zone, you may want to estimate its size. To do so, start a backup andselect all data you are going to copy into it. At the Set Backup Options step, chooseSet the options manually, then set the compression level. You will see the estimatedfull backup size (for disk/partition backup) or the approximate compression ratio (for file-level backup) with which you can calculate the estimated full backup size. Multiply this byabout 1.5 to be able to create incremental or differential backups.2. If there are several disks installed, select one on which to create Acronis Secure Zone.
