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7.2.2.2 Decreasing Acronis Secure Zone
To decrease Acronis Secure Zone
1. On the Manage Acronis Secure Zone page, click Decrease.
2. Select volumes that will receive the free space after the zone is decreased.
If you select several volumes, the space will be distributed to each partition equally. If you do not
select any volumes, the freed space becomes unallocated.
3. Specify the new size of the zone by:
dragging the slider and selecting any size between the current and minimum values. The
minimum size is approximately 50MB, depending on the geometry of the hard disk;
typing an exact value in the Acronis Secure Zone Size field.
4. Click OK.
7.2.2.3 Deleting Acronis Secure Zone
To delete Acronis Secure Zone:
1. On the Manage Acronis Secure Zone page, click Delete.
2. In the Delete Acronis Secure Zone window, select volumes to which you want to add the space
freed from the zone and then click OK.
If you select several volumes, the space will be distributed to each partition equally. If you do not
select any volumes, the freed space becomes unallocated.
After you click OK, Acronis Backup will start deleting the zone.
7.3 Removable devices
This section describes peculiarities of backing up to removable devices.
By a removable device, we mean an RDX drive or USB flash drive. A USB hard disk drive is not
considered to be a removable device unless it is recognized as such by the operating system.
In Linux, an RDX drive or USB flash drive is considered to be a removable device if it is specified by its
name (for example, sdf:/). If a device is specified by its mount point (for example, /mnt/backup), it
behaves as a fixed drive.
The method of working with removable disk libraries (multi-cartridge devices) depends on the device
type, brand, and configuration. Therefore, each case should be considered individually.
Vaults on removable devices
Before backing up a machine to a removable device, you can create a personal vault (p. 145). If you
do not want to, the software will automatically create a personal vault in the drive folder selected for
backing up.
Limitation
Vaults created on removable devices do not have the Data view (p. 102) tab.
Usage modes of removable devices
When creating a backup plan (p. 33), you can choose whether to use your removable device as a
fixed drive or as removable media. The Fixed drive mode presumes that the removable device will
always be attached to the machine. The Removable media mode is selected by default.
