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The shortcut menu that appears after right-clicking on the Acronis Secure Zone icon has two more
items – Create Shortcut (for placing it on the Desktop) and Explore for exploring the zone contents.
Choosing Explore opens Windows Explorer with Acronis Secure Zone selected on the directory tree
enabling you to explore the zone contents.
The Acronis Secure Zone is available as a location to store backup files as long as it has free space. If
there is not enough space, older backups will be deleted to create free space.
Acronis True Image Home uses the following approach to clean up Acronis Secure Zone:
If you are in the process of creating a backup and there is not enough free space in the zone to
create it, the program will display a dialog which warns you that the Acronis Secure Zone is full.
You can click Cancel to cancel the backup operation. In that case, you may want to increase the
size of the Acronis Secure Zone and then run the backup operation again. If you want to free up
some space in the zone, click OK and the oldest full backup of the type being created will be
deleted with all subsequent incremental/differential backups, then the backup operation will
recommence.
If deleting the oldest backup does not free up enough space, you will get the same warning
message again. You may delete the next oldest backup (if any) and repeat this until all the
previous backups are deleted.
If after deleting all the previous backups there is still not enough space for completing the
backup, you will get an error message and the backup will be canceled.
The program distinguishes only two types of backups in the zone: disk image backups and file-level
backups. My Data, System State, My E-mail, and My Application Settings backups are considered as
file-level type backups. For example, if you have an e-mail backup (My E-mail) in the zone and there is
not enough space for backing up a folder (My Data), the program will delete the e-mail backup to free
up space for the folder backup.
You can back up data automatically on a schedule (see Scheduling tasks (p. 110)). In order to not
worry about the zone becoming too full when Acronis True Image Home for Windows performs a
scheduled backup, it is recommended to select the When not enough space in ASZ, delete the oldest
archive box in the Backup options (Error handling) and the scheduled backup task options. However,
if you keep long chains of incremental backups, it will be good practice to periodically check the free
space in the zone.
For information on how to create, resize or delete Acronis Secure Zone using this wizard, see
Managing Acronis Secure Zone (p. 120).
3.5 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager
3.5.1 How it works
The Acronis Startup Recovery Manager lets you start Acronis True Image Home without loading the
operating system. With this feature, you can use Acronis True Image Home by itself to recover
damaged partitions, even if the operating system won't start up for some reason. As opposed to
booting from Acronis removable media, you will not need a separate media or network connection to
start Acronis True Image Home.
3.5.2 How to use
To be able to use Acronis Startup Recovery Manager at boot time, prepare as follows:
1. Install Acronis True Image Home.
