Restoring NTFS or ReFS volume mount points
When restoring a file system that contains a volume mount point, only the mount point (directory) is restored. The data on the volume mounted on that directory is not restored.
A mount point can also be restored individually. For example, C:\mount is a
mount point and has been backed up as part of the C:\ drive on the system named
STORMAN. The following command can be used to restore this mount point:
dsmc restore {\\storman\c$}\mount
The braces ({ and }) are required if you
also backed up the data on the mounted volume from the mount point. Without the braces, the client
restores data from the file space with the longest name that matches the file specification. If you
backed up the data through the mount point, the backups are stored in a file space named
\\storman\c$\mount. The braces are used to specify that the data be restored
from the \\storman\c$ file space.The mount point cannot be restored if any of the following conditions
is true:
- The mount point already exists.
- A non-empty directory matching the mount point name exists.
- A file matching the mount point name exists.