Seagate BlackArmor NAS 220 BlackArmor Backup User Guide - Page 19

button, you can also change the display order of columns using the Move Up and Move Down buttons. If you click the i (Display the properties of the selected item) button, you will see the selected partition or disk properties window. This window contains two panels. The left panel contains the properties tree and the right describes the selected property in detail. The disk information includes its physical parameters (connection type, device type, size, etc.); partition information includes both physical (sectors, location, etc.), and logical (file system, free space, assigned letter, etc.) parameters. You can change the width of a column by dragging its borders with the mouse. 3.6 Try&Decide™ The Seagate BlackArmor Backup Try&Decide feature allows you to perform potentially dangerous operations such as software installation or opening e-mail attachments without putting your PC at risk. It does this by creating essentially a controlled, secure, temporary workspace that is insulated from the rest of your computer. If the system crashes or your computer stops responding during these operations, you should revert the system to the previous state by discarding changes made in the Try&Decide mode. If operations are successful, you have a choice of applying the changes to the real system. (For more details see Chapter 7. Try&Decide.) 3.7 BlackArmor DriveCleanser, File Shredder, and System Clean-up Seagate BlackArmor Backup contains utilities for secure destruction of data on an entire hard disk drive, individual partitions, as well as for erasing individual files and eliminating user system activity traces. When replacing your old hard drive with a new, higher-capacity one, you may unwittingly leave on the old disk lots of personal and confidential information that can be recovered, even if you have reformatted it. The BlackArmor DriveCleanser provides for the destruction of confidential information on hard disk drives and/or partitions with the help of techniques that meet or exceed most national and state standards. You can select an appropriate data destruction method depending on the importance of your confidential information. The File Shredder provides the same capabilities for individual files and folders. Finally, the System Clean-up wizard ensures elimination of all your activity traces; while working with a PC, you leave thousands of bytes of evidence showing your actions (records in various system files) that you don't even know about. This could include user names and passwords, as well as other personal information that could be used to steal your identity if it fell into the wrong hands. This utility wipes them completely from the disk drive. 3.8 Support for Zip format Now you will be able to retrieve files from backups anywhere without using Seagate BlackArmor Backup, if you choose the zip format instead of the tib format. You can back up files, for example, to a USB stick and retrieve files from such archives on your notebook at home without installing Seagate BlackArmor Backup, because the most widely used operating systems, namely Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X have built-in support of the zip file format. Please, be aware that built-in support of zip files in Windows does not cover operations with multivolume zip archives, and zip archives exceeding 4GB in size or which contain files of more than 4GB each. Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Acronis. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2009 Seagate Technology LLC. All Rights Reserved. 19