Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows - User Guide - Manual (Page 78)

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10.2.3 Unmounting an image
We recommend that you unmount the virtual disk after all necessary operations are
finished, as keeping up virtual disks takes considerable system resources. If you do not,
the virtual disk will disappear after your server is turned off.
To disconnect the virtual disk, click Unmount Image and select the disk to unmount.
You can also unmount the disk in Windows Explorer by right-clicking on its icon and
selecting Unmount.
10.3 Consolidating backups
The file name-based consolidation allows deleting the backups that you do not need any
more from any archive while keeping the archive consistency.
Acronis True Image Echo Server can perform this operation in standalone (rescue) mode
as well as under Windows control.
To consolidate backups in the archive:
1. Start the Backup Consolidation Wizard by selecting Tools -> Consolidate
archive in the main program menu.
2. Select the archive from the drives tree. The file name-based consolidation does not
support Acronis Secure Zone, so it is not displayed in the tree.
An archive MyBackup consisting of one full (MyBackup) and four incremental backups
(MyBackup2-5) is selected
3. The program displays a list of backups belonging to the selected archive with the
backups creation date and time. The list is similar to that in the restore wizard. The upper
backup is the full backup; the rest are incremental backups. Select the backups you want
to
keep .
Editing images, mounted in R/W mode, results in creating incremental backups, that are
a kind of offshoots of the incremental chain. Therefore, they cannot be consolidated and
always will be excluded from the archive copy.