Secure Zone - Do I need It?
Hi
I have been using True Image for many years and have recently upgraded to TIH10 since my previous version, TI9, was incompatible with Win7. Over the past few days I have been wondering about the Secure Zone as, so far, I have not set one up. I've just had a look at the write-up about it in the User Guide and beginning to wonder whether I really need it.
My backup strategy has always been to do a full partition backup of my main discs every week. I have some 6.5Tb of disc space on 6x1Tb drives and another of 500Gb but three of the 1Tb drives are backups of the remaining three 1Tb drives. Essentially its just the 500Gb drive I backup plus one partition on one of the 1Tb drives. Between times I do not backup unless I am attempting something with the OS that may or may not work. I do not take incremental backups.
I have been aware of the Secure Zone facility for some time but have done nothing about it. What I am wondering is whether I really need it. What facilities does it give me? Currently, when necessary, I simply mount a disk if I need to recover anything. I am fortunate that I rarely have a need to recover a full drive -although I can't say it hasn't happened. So, is a Secure Zone going to give me any benefits over the way I work at present?
Any help appreciated. Thanks.
Tracey

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I agree with DwnNDrty. I do manual backups of my OS disk making full images at whatever interval I feel like and also before trying something uncertain. I never use the SZ.
Some used to find that some of the image managing features of the SZ were handy such as to automatically delete the oldest archive but the newer versions of TI appear to have more management capability.
You obviously are managing well without it and the fewer complications the better.
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I agree with with Seekforever, who also agreed with DwnNDrty....
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Thanks folks. Based on your comments, I think I'll manage without the SZ and leave well alone. Thanks for taking the trouble to respond.
Tracey
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I am not sure I would agree with these comments. I have found the Secure Zone to run faster than another standard disk drive and I like the feature that the zone is not contained/noted within the operating system and can therefore reduce the chance that other malware can destroy the data backup.
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