Acronis utilitie question (not about Acronis secure zone)

[froggiechef]

hello geeks


I have a question about compatibility between RB 9.0 and Acronis true image home 2009.
I know already that Acronis secure zone is a NO, NO option if you use RB.
So, My question is :
Can you use [I]acronis system cleanup utilities [/I]and more precisely what they call "hard disk free space "wich garanted and securely wipe disk space after file deletion.
I am a bit concern by using this utility as Acronis is not aware or not in control of the snapshots and the imparted space reserved by rollback on your C drive.
I 'm worrying that Acronis starts erased files that it can't see.

Any feed back very welcome.

Many thanks

froggiechef

[nexstar]

Originally Posted by froggiechef

hello geeks


I have a question about compatibility between RB 9.0 and Acronis true image home 2009.
I know already that Acronis secure zone is a NO, NO option if you use RB.
So, My question is :
Can you use [I]acronis system cleanup utilities [/I]and more precisely what they call "hard disk free space "wich garanted and securely wipe disk space after file deletion.
I am a bit concern by using this utility as Acronis is not aware or not in control of the snapshots and the imparted space reserved by rollback on your C drive.
I 'm worrying that Acronis starts erased files that it can't see.

Any feed back very welcome.

Many thanks

froggiechef

Hi froggiechef

Have you got a link to the software? I looked on their site but couldn't see it unless it is bundled with something else or is discontinued.

Anyway, I think the simple answer is, if you are using it within Windows on non-RollBack partitions then it would be fine. If you use it within Windows on RB partitions then RB will simply redirect the 'wipes' and the only thing that will happen is that your snapshots will suddenly get bigger! . However, if it is used outside of Windows on a RB partition (if it can work that way) then that could be very bad news and not recommended at all .

Hope that helps but if you've got some more info then we can see just how it operates.

Graham

[Baldrick]

Originally Posted by nexstar

Hi froggiechef
Anyway, I think the simple answer is, if you are using it within Windows on non-RollBack partitions then it would be fine. If you use it within Windows on RB partitions then RB will simply redirect the 'wipes' and the only thing that will happen is that your snapshots will suddenly get bigger! . However, if it is used outside of Windows on a RB partition (if it can work that way) then that could be very bad news and not recommended at all .

Hope that helps but if you've got some more info then we can see just how it operates.

Graham

Graham

Think that you are spot on re. the results in an RB Rx protected partition or disk.

[froggiechef]

hello graham

regarding acronis 2009 utilities

here is the link to user guide ( be patient , it is slow to download (30 sec))

http://us1.download.acronis.com/sl/m...2009_ug.en.pdf

And you looking for page 122 paragraph 15.5.4
that should explain what " hard disk free place" within cleaning utilities

Let me know if you find anything interesting !!

Manythanks ,

froggiechef

[nexstar]

Hi froggiechef,

Originally Posted by froggiechef

Let me know if you find anything interesting !!

Well, they don't tell you much but it appears that it probably writes zeros to the empty areas to wipe out any data which was stored there....which would be an absolutely brilliant feature for the EF/RB developers to implement in RollBack .

However, from your point of view, using the Acronis version from within RollBack is pointless and would probably just use up disk space.

Graham