Acronis Secure Zone

The Acronis Secure Zone is a special secure partition that you can create on your computer for storing backups. The Acronis Secure Zone has a FAT32 file system.

When you create an Acronis Secure Zone, it is displayed in the Other section of File Explorer. You can navigate through the Acronis Secure Zone as an ordinary partition.

If Acronis Secure Zone is password-protected, any operation, except viewing version details, requires entering the password.

Acronis Secure Zone cleanup

If there is not enough space in the Acronis Secure Zone for a new backup, you can:

• Cancel the backup operation, increase the size of the Acronis Secure Zone, and then run the backup again.
• Cancel the backup operation, manually delete some backups in the Acronis Secure Zone, and then run the backup again.
• Confirm that you want to automatically delete the oldest backup of the same type (file-level or disk-level) with all subsequent incremental and differential versions. After that, if free space is still insufficient, Acronis True Image asks for confirmation and will delete the next full backup. This will repeat until there is enough free space for the new backup. If after deleting all the previous backups there is still not enough space, the backup will be canceled.

To prevent the zone overflow, we recommended that you select the When not enough space in ASZ, delete the oldest backup check box in the scheduled backup options. Refer to Error handling for details.

You cannot use the Acronis Secure Zone as the storage for virtual system changes in the Try mode. The Try&Decide data will be automatically cleaned up after you stop a Try&Decide session.

Acronis True Image does not delete nonstop backup versions in the Acronis Secure Zone automatically. Such versions can only be deleted manually. For more information see Acronis Nonstop Backup data storage.