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Creating Acronis Secure Zone while preserving existing backups

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Greetings all,

I have been using Acronis True Image Home 2010 for several months now and I have scheduled tasks to create daily system backups. My machine C drive is a RAID array (striped) and that is where windows XP and all programs reside. The D drive is where I store all my data (My Documents) and such. I have a third drive (E) which is a 1TB drive whose only purpose is to act as an archive for TI backups. I don't use it for anything else. It is formatted NTFS as are all my drives. I have a number of backups going back about 2 months stored there. Approximately 146 GB is used at this time.

I would like to convert that entire disk to Acronis Secure Zone. But, I don't want to lose the backups I have stored there. What is the best way to accomplish that? Will the program work just the same way I am used to using it once the drive is converted to Secure Zone? Also, will I have to rebuild my scheduled tasks or will they continue to run after the conversion. Incidentally, the way I have my archive structured is with a separate directory for each day of the week and a separate schedule to do a full system (C drive) backup overwriting the old one. Here is an example of the directory "E:\My Backups\Monday", "E:\My Backups\Tuesday" and so on. I also have a scheduled task that runs once a week which does an incremental backup of both the C and D drives and consolidates them when they are over 90 days old. The directory for that backup is "E:\My Backups\Weekly Incremental". Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

--Jim

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I think you'll need to change the target in your tasks. I'd just make new tasks, it's easier that way.

Iirc, you can only make a SZ in empy space.
I don't think you can move your existing tasks into the SZ. However, you can copy them onto some other disk and save them for possible future need. If you're going to go with using an SZ, I'd just start over, so to speak.

You could, try making an SZ that uses only part of hte space, enough to leave room for you existing backups. Then you could keep your existing backups on the same hdisk.

Personally, I don't both with the complication of an SZ. For backups that need extra security, I put them on an external drive and physically lock it away in a safe place -- some off-site backup storage is a good idea in any case.