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ATI Home 2012: how to Q's?

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Well I've read through the ATI Home 2012 Users Guide and have created an ASZ secure zone on my
C drive and did a disk image to there. Have also did several restores to old backup hard drives for emergencies.
I have ATIH 2012 installed on an XP Pro machine.

All is good, but am uncertain how to accomplish a number of things within the software
and not for lack of trying.

1) create a disk image of the C: drive and store that .asz file to an exterior usb drive within ATIH 2012

2) directly copy an .asz file to an exterior USB drive ... Copy and Paste?

3) relabel/rename an .asz file

I figure I can do this: (dont need to answer yet)

4) take a bootable C: drive from another computer, put it in an enclosure, hook it up as an exterior usb drive , now registering as an F: drive. Create an Acronis Secure Zone on it and create a disk image(of F:) into an .asz file.

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I advise against creating the Acronis Secure Zone. It's really meant as a sub-optimal method of backup for people who have no external target to which to backup. If your drive fails, you would lose your system, files, and your Secure Zone backups.

It's much better and safer to make backup images to an external hard drive.

Also, in the past there were occasional reports of the Secure Zone causing problems to the system. When I installed Secure Zone on one PC, it corrupted the hard drive causing data loss and rendering the system unbootable. Perhaps the latest versions of Secure Zone are improved, but that experience coupled with its inherent insecurity and lack of redundancy cause me to be wary of Secure Zone.

I also recommend against the associated Startup Recovery Manager. If activated, it modifies your system drive Master Boot Record (MBR), which can cause problems with multi-boot managers and other low-level disk utilities.

2. I don't see the value is having an Acronis Secure Zone on an external drive.

3. I don't think you can rename an ASZ. Your management options on an ASZ are limited.

4. I don't see the point of this.

5. As you have an external USB drive, IMO that's the best place to create backups. Just create a full disk mode backup to that external drive, and you'll have a great disaster-recovery tool. You can make multiple such backup images to that same drive, so you have backups from various dates.

Hmmmm, thanks for the caution. ASZ stuff is flaky, who would have guessed.

#4) bootable drive is from another computer. Dont want to buy another version of ATIH for that computer, but want to pull out drive
and plug it in via USB into my ATIH installed computer and ..NOW...either install Acronis Secure Zone and do a disk image/backup to a partition on it and elsewhere.

Thanks

The ASZ is a place to put backups on your internal hard drive which is protected from any Windows software problems (but not hard drive failures of course). IMO it can be useful to do more backups than those you might do connecting & re-connecting an external drive.

So I don't see the point either of putting an ASZ on a computer that doesn't have ATIH resident as well to take advantage of it.

RB2 wrote:

Hmmmm, thanks for the caution. ASZ stuff is flaky, who would have guessed.

#4) bootable drive is from another computer. Dont want to buy another version of ATIH for that computer, but want to pull out drive
and plug it in via USB into my ATIH installed computer and ..NOW...either install Acronis Secure Zone and do a disk image/backup to a partition on it and elsewhere.

Thanks

Creating the ASZ doesn't by itself help you to backup another PC. If you connect that drive to the PC with ATI installed, you can backup/image that drive to your regular external USB HD. You can image multiple PCs to a single external USB HD. I don't see any benefit in using the ASZ, at least from what I can understand from your confusing description.

Thanks Tuttle
Thanks Tom