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4.2.5. Mounted Drives
A mounted drive is a local volume attached to an empty folder (called a
mount point) on an NTFS volume. When enabling shadow copies on a
volume that contains mounted drives, the mounted drives are not included
when shadow copies are taken. In addition, if a mounted drive is shared and
shadow copies are enabled on it, users cannot access the shadow copies if
they traverse from the host volume (where the mount point is stored) to the
mounted drive.
For example, assume there is a folder F:\data\users, and the Users folder is
a mount point for G:\. If shadow copies are enabled on both F:\ and G:\,
F:\data is shared as
\\nas1\data,
and G:\data\users is shared as
\\nas1\users. In this example, users can access previous versions of
\\nas1\data
and
\\nas1\users
but not
\\nas1\data\users.
4.3.
Managing Shadow Copies
The vssadmin tool provides a command line capability to create, list, resize,
and delete volume shadow copies.
The system administrator can make shadow copies available to end users
through a feature called "Shadow Copies for Shared Folders." The
administrator uses the Properties menu (see below) to turn on the Shadow
Copies feature, select the volumes to be copied, and determine the
frequency with which shadow copies are made.
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