Acronis Backup for Windows Server Essentials - User Guide - Manual (Page 192)

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As is apparent from the above, setting the maximum possible zone size is not advisable. You will end
up with no free space on any volume which might cause the operating system or applications to work
unstably and even fail to start.
7.2.2 Managing Acronis Secure Zone
Acronis Secure Zone is considered as a personal vault (p. 442). Once created on a managed machine,
the zone is always present in the list of Personal vaults. Centralized backup plans can use Acronis
Secure Zone as well as local plans.
All the archive management operations available in vaults are also applicable to Acronis Secure Zone.
To learn more about archive management operations, see Operations with archives and backups (p.
245).
7.2.2.1 Increasing Acronis Secure Zone
To increase Acronis Secure Zone
1. On the Manage Acronis Secure Zone page, click Increase.
2. Select volumes from which free space will be used to increase the Acronis Secure Zone.
3. Specify the new size of the zone by:
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dragging the slider and selecting any size between the current and maximum values. The
maximum size is equal to the disk’s unallocated space plus the total free space of all selected
partitions;
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typing an exact value in the Acronis Secure Zone Size field.
When increasing the size of the zone, the program will act as follows:
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first, it will use the unallocated space. Volumes will be moved, if necessary, but not resized.
Moving of locked volumes requires a reboot.
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If there is not enough unallocated space, the program will take free space from the selected
volumes, proportionally reducing the volumes' size. Resizing of locked partitions requires a
reboot.
Reducing a system volume to the minimum size might prevent the machine's operating system from
booting.
4. Click OK.
7.2.2.2 Decreasing Acronis Secure Zone
To decrease Acronis Secure Zone
1. On the Manage Acronis Secure Zone page, click Decrease.
2. Select volumes that will receive the free space after the zone is decreased.
If you select several volumes, the space will be distributed to each partition equally. If you do not
select any volumes, the freed space becomes unallocated.
3. Specify the new size of the zone by:
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dragging the slider and selecting any size between the current and minimum values. The
minimum size is approximately 50MB, depending on the geometry of the hard disk;

typing an exact value in the Acronis Secure Zone Size field.
4. Click OK.