Where to put Acronis Secure Zone ?

Evening everyone,

Well, Acronis TI 10 is now installed on my computer.

I made my first complete image of my internal hard drive and stored it on my external drive.

I then validated the same thing and all seems to be A-Okay. Of course, I won't know for sure unless the need ever arises and I have to use the restore function.

I do have one other 'newbie' question. My 'C' Drive (internal) shows 11.8 GB of used space but by Image on my external drive only shows 7.49 GBs of used space. Does this sound normal?

Thanks and regards,

2harts4ever

 

Sounds right on target. To estimate the size of your backup image take the total amount of used space on the drive that you're backing up, subtract the size of the Windows paging file (pagefile.sys), subtract the size of the Windows hibernation file (hiberfile.sys), and then multiply the result by about 0.7 to account for the file compression used by TI.

So assuming that you have a paging file of about 1 GB and no hibernation file then [11.8 - 1]x0.7 = about 7.5 GB.

To discover another "neat" feature of TI, double-click on your image file and have a look inside. You should see all of your backed-up files.

 

Hi k0lo,

I appreciate your fast reply and for putting my weary 65-year-old mind at ease.

I will keep exploring.

Thanks and regards,

2harts4ever

 

Don't forget the advice posted earlier-- get a spare internal drive and put it in in place ofyour system drive and do a restore. If that works -- and it should and most likely will, you'll know that you're covered. At that point you can swap your old drive back in or keep it for when the other fails.

It might seem like extra trouble and money, but if you drive ever goes south and you don't have a means to restore, you'll wish you'd spent whatever it took.