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To disable password
1.
Choose
Do not use
.
2.
Click
OK
.
6.8.1.4
Result confirmation
The
Result confirmation
window displays the expected partition layout according to the settings you
have chosen. Click
OK
, if you are satisfied with the layout and the Acronis Secure Zone creation will
start.
How the settings you make will be processed
This helps you to understand how creating the Acronis Secure Zone will transform a disk containing
multiple volumes.
Acronis Secure Zone is always created at the end of the hard disk. When calculating the final
layout of the volumes, the program will first use unallocated space at the end.
If there is no or not enough unallocated space at the end of the disk, but there is unallocated
space between volumes, the volumes will be moved to add more unallocated space to the end.
When all unallocated space is collected but it is still not enough, the program will take free space
from the volumes you select, proportionally reducing the volumes' size. Resizing of locked
volumes requires a reboot.
However, there should be free space on a volume, so that the operating system and applications
can operate; for example, for creating temporary files. The program will not decrease a volume
where free space is or becomes less than 25% of the total volume size. Only when all volumes on
the disk have 25% or less free space, will the program continue decreasing the volumes
proportionally.
As is apparent from the above, setting the maximum possible zone size is not advisable. You will end
up with no free space on any volume which might cause the operating system or applications to work
unstably and even fail to start.
6.8.2
Managing Acronis Secure Zone
Acronis Secure Zone is considered as a personal vault (p. 373). Once created on a managed machine,
the zone is always present in the list of
Personal vaults
. Centralized backup plans can use Acronis
Secure Zone as well as local plans.
If you have used the Acronis Secure Zone before, please note a radical change in the zone
functionality. The zone does not perform automatic cleanup, that is, deleting old archives, anymore.
Use backup schemes with automatic cleanup to back up to the zone, or delete outdated archives
manually using the vault management functionality.
With the new Acronis Secure Zone behavior, you obtain the ability to:
list archives located in the zone and backups included in each archive
examine backup content
mount a volume backup to copy files from the backup to a physical disk
safely delete archives and backups from the archives.
To learn more about operations with vaults, see the Vaults (p. 125) section.
