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Acronis Secure Zone

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designed a solution to this problem by carving off part of the local disk as a proprietary partition, which they refer to as Acronis Secure Zone. Since this partition is accessibly only by True Image and Backup & Recovery, it functions as a backup target safe from malware, user files, or other
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Acronis True Image is designed to self-manage the backup archives stored to the Acronis Secure Zone. As such, all backup files are stored with autogenerated names in the root folder. If there is not enough free space for the next backup file, Acronis True Image will delete the oldest image set
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uses or corruption. Acronis True Image can manage only one Acronis Secure Zone per computer but can restore data off others (e.g., when a portable hard drive is connected).
89:. Since the Acronis Secure Zone is just a modified FAT32 partition type, it is possible to gain direct access to this partition by changing its partition type code to 116:, and typically contains only a single image file with the "factory default" operating system and application configuration set forth by the manufacturer. 56:
Backup applications typically use network storage for storing backup archives, but this can be problematic when such resources are not available.
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secure zone", which is technically the same as a regular Acronis Secure Zone, but uses a partition type of
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Although the Acronis Secure Zone has its own partition type, it is actually just a rebadged
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Acronis® Secure Zone®
hard disk
partition
Acronis True Image
backup
Acronis
FAT32
partition type
partition manager
OEM versions of True Image
Original Equipment Manufacturer
Acronis True Image OEM
Categories
Computer storage devices
Disk file systems

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