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Password on Acronis boot cd?


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Hey, i was wondering, I want to make an acronis boot cd, but, want it to have a password upon boot. is that possible? if so, how?

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Airstream_Bill

I have made a lot of Acronis Boot Recovery CD's and Thumbdrive Boot Recovery but I do not think that you can make it password protected. If one is needing a recovery cd or thumbdrive recovery I do not think that you want it password protected. You want it to boot on that device so you can recover your system. Why would you want a password protected recovery disk?????? I think that you can make the actual backup password protected. I am not positive about that though. Sure have nooooo idea why one would want to do that.

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SnakeMasteR

I would create a boot cd/dvd only from the plain and configured Windows, everything else (sensitive data) goes into a TrueCrypt container, separately from the Backup, a backup at all shouldn't contain so much sensitive information (from my POV), it must be easily accessible with the ability to restore most important things, not everything at all. You even can use compressed WinRAR archive(s) with encrypted filenames or only for compressing and GnuPG/AESCrypt for encryption.

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I want to add a password so the place that ive made the recovery needs me to come in and do it. They want a copy of acronis' boot cd for recoveries, but i dont want to supply it.

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Yep, setup a secure zone and PW that, OR PW the image itself.

From what you are saying though, I expect that when / IF they do call you in they will ask for the password so they can restore themselves, if this is a business environment and they've asked you backup their images, I don't see how you can refuse to hand the password over.

Just my thoughts.

Dodel.

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I want to add a password so the place that ive made the recovery needs me to come in and do it. They want a copy of acronis' boot cd for recoveries, but i dont want to supply it.

Imaging by Acronis is common these days...Make it part of your service to allow them access to it and you gain reputation points with your customers.

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i was hoping that perhaps with the proper password on the boot disk, they'd have full access to the image, but, my services would be required when time comes to restore it. hm..

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sorry for the double post, any easy way to get acronis boot cd on a usb?

Your better off grabbing Hirens boot cd, there's plenty of guides on turning it to USB.

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sorry for the double post, any easy way to get acronis boot cd on a usb?

In case you like to have just the Acronis on an USB drive - hunt for the WinPE flavor in ISO format and then use the standard procedure to burn it to the USB drive.

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