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Query about Secure Zone backup and location

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I am running two backups; one is in the the Secure Zone and the other is to an external hard drive.

I backed up to the external drive and all looked OK (and the backup was reported as valid).  I then backed up to the SZ and found that local disk activity was minimal while the external disk holding the recently completed backup was being used up to 90/95 per cent.  I had not expected that!

Where is the SZ in TIH2018?  In previous versions it could be seen with windows explorer and the dates/times of updates could be checked.  Now I cannot find the SZ at all.  Does TIH2018 hide it away so that it is not accidentally messed with?  And why is the external disk involved with the SZ backup?  Is it held on the external disk somehow?

Any help or clarification appreciated!

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Alan, the ASZ is simply a modified FAT32 partition and will be located at the end of whichever drive that you selected when you enabled the ASZ feature in ATI 2018 (or an earlier version).

I do not use the ASZ so cannot offer a screen image to show it but Windows Disk management should show the location in the drive map for one of your drives.

It is possible that the ASZ could be created on an external drive if that was connected when you enabled it.  An easy test would be to disconnect the external drive and then see if you can browse to the location for your backup to the ASZ using the Open Location option for your backup task?

In reply to by truwrikodrorow…

Thanks Steve; I have now found out what has happened and the reason I could not find the SZ is because there wasn't one!  Somehow the installation of TIH2018 over 2016 deleted the SZ.  I have now created an SZ, backed up and all seems well.  I also backed up to the external disk again to make sure all was well.

I did try to back up to the SZ before all this but nothing happened - hardly a surprise with no SZ.

So all tidy now, thanks.

Alan, thanks for the update / feedback - glad all is back to how you want it again.