2 Computers using secure zone

[AndyPopely]

I have 2 computers backing their internal C drive to another internal drive.

If I set up a Secure Zone on an external drive that can be switched between the 2 computers can I perform full and incremental backups of both computer C drives to that single Secure Zone on the external drive ?

[Unit01]

I wouldn't recommend it.

Format the drive to NTFS, as either 2 partitions for each machine, or put the backups into a single partition under separate folders.

As far as I'm concerned secure zone on external hard disks are a bad idea regardless.

[foghorne]

-{ Quote: "I have 2 computers backing their internal C drive to another internal drive.

If I set up a Secure Zone on an external drive that can be switched between the 2 computers can I perform full and incremental backups of both computer C drives to that single Secure Zone on the external drive ?" }-

Hi Andy

Each to their own, but IMHO the real strength of SZ is that it allows users who run with a single hard disk (and are foolhardy enough to have all their eggs in one basket) to save their data away. It is true that its other benefit is that it provides a degee of archive ageing/management - which has some value. If you are using a second disk drive you might be better using a couple of ordinary partitions or one partition together with subdirectories.

What advantage do you percieve you are getting from using a SZ?

F.

[Xpilot]

-{ Quote: "I wouldn't recommend it.

Format the drive to NTFS, as either 2 partitions for each machine, or put the backups into a single partition under separate folders.

As far as I'm concerned secure zone on external hard disks are a bad idea regardless." }-


Using NTFS for backups seems to be the consensus of opinion round here. Now I am not so sure. See here:-

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=152076


Xpilot

[AndyPopely]

I have a circle or friends and family who all use Acronis for their backups.

To answer why use secure zone ? - most of these people have limited computer skills and all found it much easier to use a secure zone as "foghorne" mentions for ease of "archive ageing/management".

As far as using SZ on an external drive - a couple of folks have had to replace internal hard drives due to them getting fried - we all live in a very hot desert region. On some computers the SZ is on a seperate internal hard drive to the other internal hard drive holding the XP operating system.

It is possible that both hard drives could become unusable and be repleaced but gone, also, is the Acronis backup. So we feel it would be safer to have the SZ on an external hard drive which would hopefully be less affected by heat.

So putting aside preferences on using SZ is it not possible to back up 2 computers to the SZ on the same external hard drive ? Or must we use our own backup file names (ie not use SZ) if we want to use an external hard drive and thus "archive ageing/management" must be done manually ?

[TheWeaz]

Since you do not provide names for the images stored in the ASZ (TI does that, and who knows what naming convention they use), I would think it near impossible to store images from 2 PCs in the same ASZ and have any hope of knowing what’s what.